.forward file contents

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:54PM -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. 

Are you sure you even need a ~/.forward file when you use procmail? I
don't! (Exim4 handles all that automagically, it seems.)

My setup: exim4 + procmail, using fetchmail to IMAP/POP mail.

/M

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