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Re: sendmail 8.6.4 and local delivery agent

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From: Dan Mosedale
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 05:16
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dhatz@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Dhmhtrhs Hatzopoulos) writes:

>>Has anyone attempted to use 'procmail' as the local delivery agent for
>>8.6.4 ? I've configured it as suggested in procmail's documentation, but
>>'elm' won't accept the mailbox format in /usr/spool/mail/* (reports that
>>the folder is corrupted).

Hmmm... I've only done this on Ultrix, but it seems to be working
quite nicely.  I added the following procmail-related stuff to my .m4
file:

define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',`/tools/mail/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',`ShP')dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',`procmail -d $u')dnl
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From: mosedale@aeffle.Stanford.EDU (Dan Mosedale)
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