Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sendmail is configured to use procmail out of the box for local > delivery, but not everyone receives mail using sendmail - some use > fetchmail to grab mail from their ISP mail server for instance. > > The option in sendmail.mc for procmail delivery is: > > FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl > > If you have this, local delivery should be via procmail. I've now discovered something important. If I configure "root" with a .procmailrc that contains: LOGFILE=/root/procmail.log LOGABSTRACT=yes VERBOSE=1 and send mail to "root" then I actually see an abstract appended to /root/procmail.log which is consistent with the procmail man page in that it says $HOME/.procmailrc will get processed. I leaped, incorrectly it would appear, to the conclusion that $HOME referred to the mail target. It must be referring to the User running procmail, i.e. "root" on a stock Fedora Core system, which makes considerable sense. This, I believe, is the crux of my battles. So that raises the question: how does one configure mail (sendmail or otherwise) on a stock Fedora Core system so that ~User/.procmailrc will be processed for all User's on the system? I am now reaching the conclusion that dovecot, for example, takes care of this on the corporate mail server, and that I need to do something similar on my local machine. -pmr
