At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote: >Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm >configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and >sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine >runing 8.1. > >The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an >idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, >where do I put the .procmailrc ? > >I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different >Mail folders in different home directories. I have >fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into >/var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the "To:" field, >I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory >or my wife's. > >According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes >procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the >logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving >mail into different home directories, I need procmail >to be run by root, even though either myself or my >wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and >where do I put the .procmailrc file?
put it in /etc/procmailrc (without the leading ".") this will make the file globally used..... --quay >-Paul "I can type 'man' really fast now" Schwebel > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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