On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Michael Fischer wrote: mf> On Mon, Dec 17, Pat Colbeck wrote: mf> > .forward is needed with SuSE, mf> mf> Not for me it hasn't been. ~/.procmailrc and telling my MTA mf> (postfix) to use procmail for local delivery (uncomment the line mf> already there in main.cf -- I suppose sendmail has similar) does mf> the trick. mf> Same here, I have a .procmailrc but no .forward, I've always understood the .forward file to be exactly what it sounds like, a forwarder, you place a single line email address in the file and any mail directed to that user is forwarded to the email address specified in the .forward file. It just so happens that you can also use it for other things like telling procmail to process mail received. mf> Mind, this only concerns _local_ delivery. mf> mf> Michael mf> -- S.Toms - smotrs@mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.2+ - Kernel 2.4.4 I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man. -- Fred Allen