On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:21:26PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 22 May, Angus Lees wrote:
> >  if that was truly the reason, then it isn't a procmail issue - 
> >  procmail doesn't use the .forward (IIRC), thats part of the MTA's job 
> 
> I thought Red Hat (and most Linuxes) used procmail for final delivery
> into local mailboxes?  Mine does.

yes, but the mta has to read .forward to find out if it does indeed
have to do a local delivery..

in fact most (legacy ;) systems require you to put
"|/usr/bin/procmail" into your .forward before procmail will even be
called. if procmail also read the .forward then this would never
work..

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 - Gus
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