Procmail for fetchmail and local MDA

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From: Justin S. Cooksey
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:00

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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.

What is the best solution?

Should I create an account that picks up mail from my ISP and has the
specific .procmailrc file in its home directory, and would that solve
the problem?

Should I not use procmail for local delivery?

Why is procmail set up for local delivery?


Thanks for any help,

Justin.

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From: jcooksey@hunterlink.net.au (Justin S. Cooksey)
Subject: Procmail for fetchmail and local MDA
Date: 1998/03/19
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