Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-18 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, T o n g wrote: "Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local delivery agent by default, so you should not have to set up a .forward." Or there is something else? procmail is optional, and so can not be the default MDA In Debian, sensible-mda(8) is the defau

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:34:31 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: >> "Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local delivery >> agent by default, so you should not have to set up a .forward." >> >> Or there is something else? > > procmail is optional, and so can not be the default MDA > >

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, T o n g wrote: I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering my mails. However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ spool/mail without being forwarded. "Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local del

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering > my mails. > > However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ > spool/mail without being forwarded. > > How should I fix it? Do I need that .forwa

Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering my mails. However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ spool/mail without being forwarded. How should I fix it? Do I need that .forward file? My setting has been working fine for many years