On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:36:26AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only > of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing > it. > What am I missing here?
Although it's not the most common configuration, ISTR that sendmail can be set up to perform all deliveries via procmail (or insert-your- favorite-alternative-MDA-here) by default, in which case it looks immediately for a .procmailrc without using .forward at all. But I don't know anything about that capability other than that it is rumored to exist (all the boxes I set up use exim, not sendmail), so I could be completely wrong. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss