.forward file contents

[Tony Arnold]

Don,

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 15:53 -0800, Don W. Jenkins wrote:
> I am having some problem getting Procmail to run when fetchmail polls my 
> pop account, and I think it has to do with not having a ~/.forward 
> file.  I found a sort of example in the man page for procmail, but it 
> isn't quite clear exactly what the contents of the .forward file should 
> look like.  Can someone give me an idea what the basic entry is supposed 
> to look like in a .forward file.  I can run Procmail on the mailbox 
> after I have downloaded all the messages and sort them into folders, but 
> I want to do it as they download automatically. I've used Procmail 
> succcessfully before and have my .procmailrc saved and working, but I 
> forgot about the .forward file. 

My .forward file on a FreeBSD system where I use procmail is as follows:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf- || exit 75 #zzalsaca"

where zzalsaca is my username. I think the last bit means deliver to
zzalsaca if the procmail process fails or something. It's a while since
I set it up and cannot remember the details right now.

Regards,
Tony.
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