.forward file contents

Klaus Alexander Seistrup kseistrup at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 00:13:08 UTC 2005


My ~/.forward file looks like this (double quotes included):

"|exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #klaus"

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:53:54 -0800, Don W. Jenkins <dwjenkins at sc-zg.com> 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.

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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
SubZeroNet · Copenhagen · Denmark




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