On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:10:09PM -0500, NSL sysadms wrote: > can you please tell me what is the significance of the following line in > .forward > > > "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75 # username" Having a procmail line in ~/.forward on FC1 is most likely a left over from a previous install or a home dir on another machine. > i am getting an error > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75" > (reason: Service unavailable) > (expanded from: <username@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) This is a common error when sendmail has procmail enabled in it. In such a case you should: mv ~/.forward ~/.forward-not-needed-here If your are in doubt about procmail setup move it out of the way mv ~/.procmailrc ~/.procmailrc-need2check Now look at the man page for procmail and decide if you need the services of procmail. What your ".forward" line was supposed to do is pass all your mail to procmail for filtering and processing. Since procmail is hooked up by "default" (most fedora mail) all you need to do is retest your .procmailrc file if you had one. Look at /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and see the line: define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl and others like it. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
