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- From: berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
- Subject: Re: probable procmail problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170444.2840@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
- Originator: berg@tabaqui
- Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner)
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- Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik / RWTH Aachen
- References: <richard.722394689@dutepp13>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 17:04:44 GMT
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- >Until recently I was the only one using procmail on our system. Last week
- >my colleague also started using procmail and that's when the problems
- >started.
-
- >We have difficulties receiving mail from mailing lists we are both on.
- >For example, we are both on a staff and develop mailing list, both locally.
- >These used to work perfectly.
-
- >It seems from the /var/log/syslog that only one of us is getting mail and
- >that is indeed what is happening in reality.
-
- You probably have a (very) old version of procmail, it still contains
- the insufficient recommendation that you use:
-
- "IIFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"
-
- as the contents of your .forward file.
-
- This tends to confuse sendmail (clearly a bug in sendmail) when multiple
- users use this as their .forward file contents. The new & improved
- recommendation looks like:
-
- "|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #YOUR_LOGIN_NAME"
-
- Of course, substitute your, resp. your friend's username for YOUR_LOGIN_NAME.
- *Don't* omit the '#'.
-
- P.S. I can unofficially announce that there exists a procmail mailinglist.
- It will be officially announced when v2.80 of procmail is released.
-
- For people that want to get on it now, subscription requests to:
-
- procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- --
- Sincerely, berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless). berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- "I have a *cunning* plan!"
-