[cobalt-users] Procmail

["Daniel Foster" <daniel@xxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to get procmail to work for a couple of days now, and
I'm stumped.  There are some things in the archives about it, but they
don't seem to help.

.procmailrc is nice and simple, like this:
:0
* ^TO.
! daniel@xxxxxxxx

Which should just forward anything it receives to me
(daniel@xxxxxxxx).  It's fine as a test case, just to get procmail
working.  I'll worry about useful recipes later.  For the purposes of
getting this sorted, I've created a user 'dantest' under a domain
'dantest.34SP.com'.  All the DNS stuff is set up right, since without
procmail stuff I can just send to the user as normal.

If I put the standard procmail calling thing in .forward, which is:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dantest"

Then I get a returned mail to the account I sent it from like

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dantest"
    (expanded from: <dantest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: cannot use & in command
554 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dantest"...
Service unavailable

Which I gather is something to do with Sendmail's smrsh.  So I
simplified it.

If I have just
"!/usr/bin/procmail"
in .forward, then nothing happens to the mail and it just gets
received by dantest.

I'd be most grateful if anyone can shed any light on how to get this
working.

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Daniel Foster - daniel@xxxxxxxx