Re: Procmail for fetchmail and local MDA

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From: Boris Boehlen
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:00

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Hi,
> >I am using RedHat Linux 5.0, which uses procmail as the local delivery
> >agent. I am getting mail from my ISP using fetchmail with procmail as
> >the delivery agent. Basically I want to set up a few rules to sort
> >mail amongst some users on the Linux system. Any message that dosn't
> >fit those rules gets passed to root.
> 
> >However if I create a .procmailrc file in /root for when I pickup mail
> >the same .procmailrc file will be used for the local delivery and the
> >mail gets stuck in a never ending loop.
My solution was to setup a single user dedicated to fetch and sort the
mails. This user has its own fetchmailrc and procmailrc. Additionaly
this user should not get any mails. That's it.

Bye
	Boris

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From: Boris Boehlen <boris@i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Procmail for fetchmail and local MDA
Date: 1998/03/31
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