I like to use procmail on my RAQ4, so I've created a .procmailrc in one users home dir and also a .forward which I've chmod to 644

The .forward contains

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #username"

But all mails are always bouncing with this:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #username"
(reason: service unavailable)
(expanded from: <username@domain.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: IFS=' not available for sendmail programs
554 5.0.0 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #username"...
Service unavailable

Any ideas what's wrong here?

Hello,

I'm 99% sure that procmail is already configured in to sendmail on a RaQ4 (at lest on the one I've ben adminning). To double check, just grep for procmail in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

If it is, then you only need to setup your .procmailrc and you don't have to do anything with your .forward.

Give it a try,

Frank

Hi,

yes there is something about procmail in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, but if I remove .forward the .procmailrc will completely ignored.

What are you trying to use procmail to do?

Frank

I've set it up now, step by step with the FAQ from http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ and it works. Don't know what the real problem was, but anyway, it works.

And you're right, the .forward file is not needed.

Thanks for your answers.

Originally posted by insequi
Hi,

yes there is something about procmail in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, but if I remove .forward the .procmailrc will completely ignored.


Could you give example of your .procmailrc?

Here's my .procmailrc listing.

SHELL=/usr/bin/sh
MAILDIR=${HOME}/mail
LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail.log
LOG="--- Logging ${LOGFILE} for ${LOGNAME}, "

:0:
#/home/sites/site19/users/sales/mail/filtered

/filtered is a folder and I have neomail installed.

I don't have .forward file.

Any help is appreciated.