I'm trying to use procmail as my local delivery agent. But I'm
having some confusion as to the relationship of the Exim to procmail.
Exim has built-in support for the .forward file -- my
understanding is that this is a feature 'inherited' (read: copied) from
Sendmail. Specifically, I'm talking about the "userforward:" entry in the
default config file.
However, the procmail man page says:
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Procmail should be invoked automatically over the .forward file mechanism
as soon as mail arrives.
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Does that mean I should disable the "userforward:" entry in the
confige file? Or does that mean I should have procmail invoked as a pipe
command _via_ the .forward file?
In short, does procmail ever use or read the .forward file?
I am further confused by the next sentence in the procmail man
page:
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Alternatively, when installed by a system administrator, it can be invoked
from within the mailer immediately.
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It seems to me that this is saying the exact same thing as the
last sentence, and yet it says "alternatively".
I want users to be able to both (a) have mail forwarded to
arbitrary other accounts, and (b) use procmail to filter messages and take
other recipe-based actions. Would that involve both the .forward file and
the .procmailrc? Or does that mean users would need to have a recipe in
.procmailrc to do any desired forwarding?
Any help (esp. examples) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Derek Simkowiak
