On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:58:17AM -0400, Steve Barr wrote: > Searching through the archives I found this message. Exactly what I want to > accomplish, but I can't get it to work. > > I installed procmail and copied the recipe to /etc/procmailrc. Then I sent > myself a test message, the attachment still came though as .vbs. If I copy > /etc/procmailrc to ~/.procmailrc and send myself a test message it works.
yep. you got it. > I must be missing something somewhere, but I haven't found anything > searching the FAQs and various lists. Any suggestion on where to look for a > solution? it's all right in front of you -- it's just buried in exim-speak. you hafta learn how to grok the lingo... > # This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file > > procmail: > driver = localuser > transport = procmail_pipe > require_files = > ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail > no_verify the director, which matches the exim default setup, tells exim check for username check for user's home dir check user's home dir for .procmailrc file check to be sure /usr/bin/procmail exists and if so, then run the user's own home-grown recipes. if there's a system-wide procmailrc file under /etc, this snippet is irrelevant to it (and vice versa, no doubt). what this does is look in your own personal home directory for ~/.procmailrc and then it runs the instructions there. /etc isn't considered. i think. :) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #13 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : How can you generate RANDOM EMAIL SIGNATURES? Many email clients have this feature -- for mutt, simply declare in your ~/.muttrc file something like send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'" (note the quoted value ends with a 'pipe|' symbol) Then whenever you send email to any debian-* address, it'll append the output from your script, instead of appending a static file. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...