Re: [cobalt-users] PROCMAIL - help, please!

[cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thank you so VERY much for your reply on this.  We have some quite 
elaborate nested rc fils for the .procmailrc, so that's no problem for us 
(used extensively on a former host).  All that we need is to get the mail 
program looking at it.

One point of confusion here:

We go in at one directory, move to another to manage the domains, and I 
have ANOTHER directory for my "own" user directory.  The structure is:

homeroot - where we first go in with ftp or telnet
        web - this directory disappears in url and everything here is 
directly under our domain
        users - I have ANOTHER directory within this, with my own 
username, and another "web" subdirectory for it - nothing's there but the 
placeholder.
        procmail - I'd LIKE to put my procmail stuff here, since I have 
several different rc files to access

Cuteftp is set to move to /web for the working directory, so that all of 
our uploads go to the corresponding point within our domain.  We have a 
second login sequence to put us at the root, directly under / (home, above).

Question 1:  exactly where should I place .forward
Question 1a:  what permissions for .forward
Question 2:  exactly where should I place .procmailrc
Question 2a:  what permissions for .procmailrc

It looks like I should be able to make the files w/notepad and just upload 
them ASCII with ftp - no need for telnet, since the ftp can chmod.  I just 
used this method and placed both files under the homeroot directory.  A 
test letter indicated that it didn't work.


At 04:51 PM 9/14/00 , you wrote:

> You first must allow the users to have telnet enabled on their account, so
> the end of their entry in /etc/password should look like /bash.
>
> Next you must telnet in to your server go to the users directory and call
> procmail from their .forward file if there isn't one make one, then enter
> 'pico .forward
>
> Put the line in as follows be sure to put the quotes (") in at the
> beginning and end as shown below:
>
> "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-!!exit 75 #username"
>
> where username is obviously their username on your system.
> next you will need a .procmailrc to route the mail, but their are tons of
> how-tos on how to get that going.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Will ANYONE here please help us get procmail working on a cobalt RAQ2?
> >
> > We've conferred with everyone that we could find, including the author of
> > the software, but no one can tell us why the system seems to ignore
> > .forward AND .procmailrc
> >
> > Any help will be most sincerely appreciated.
> >
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