Thanks for the response Bruce. Question below. Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:29 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > >>I am in need of some enlightenment. What is the purpose of procmail and >>how does it relate to sendmail? >> >> > > Procmail is a deliverer of mail.... It takes an email from sendmail and does > the final delivery of it on the local host (or what other processes you > might want to do with that mail such as forward it) > > In your /etc/sendmail.cf you will find (most likely) and Mlocal entry that > specifies procmail as the delivery agent. > >
OK, my sendmail.cf file appears to be using /usr/sbin/mail.local to deliver mail, at least that's how I understand this line: Mlocal, P=/usr/sbin/mail/local, F=<gobbldygook>:/<gobbldygook2>, SEnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP So I should change this somehow to get it to use Procmail. How? (I'll hunt for an answer on my own, but...) According to http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~ksm/SASC/WKS_Procmail/page03.html, I need to do this first: Using the sendmail 8.8 auto-configuration, procmail support can be easily integrated into the sendmail.cf file by adding the following to the sendmail macro file: FEATURE(local_procmail, `/pkg/bin/procmail') define(`PROCMAIL_PATH', /pkg/bin/procmail) MAILER(procmail)dnl Is that right? Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
