Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 03.03.02 at 14:59, chiefoldmist wrote:

> Dear Bruce, Carlos & Jerry
>
> Thank you all for your help - i now have a working
> mail system delivering mail for both myself and my
> wife (she is very happy).

Good! :-)


> I apologise for any confusion and hope that the
> previous emails were a good natured discussion !!!.

:-)


> I will try to cler up a few things:
>
> 1. I was running fetchmail as root

I thougt so.

>
> 2. When i wanted to get procmail running i looked a
> Togan's FAQ and uncommented the mailbox_command line
> and added the path to procmail as he suggested.

You mean this text?

|2. How can I make fetchmail to deliver via procmail ?
|
|You need to add:
|
| mda "/usr/bin/procmail  -d  %T"
|
|
|to your "options" in ~/.fetchmailrc For instance .fetchmailrc may look
|something like:
|
|poll mail.domain.com protocol pop3 username myusername password
|mysecretpassword options ssl mda "/usr/bin/procmail  -d  %T"


Or this other entry:

|4. How do use procmail with Postfix ?
|
|in /etc/postfix/main.cf Search for
|
|#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
|
|
|And change it to your path to procmail, which is /usr/bin/procmail unless
|you changes the procmail installation.

It must be this last one. I think I'm starting to understand. :-)


There is an easier way: Yast can configure it for you; or edit
"/etc/sysconfig/postfix":

	POSTFIX_MDA="procmail"

possibly running suseconfig later.


> 3. When i did this the comments above this line said
> that if i wanted to use this to deliver mail system
> wide i had to alias root - which i did to Tim.

Exactly!

>
> 4. I then entered my recipe in /etc/procmailrc
>
> 5. I got all sorts of strange messages as you saw.

Yes, very weird.

>
> What i did to solve this was:
>
> 1. Run fetchmail as Tim
>
> 2. Add Jerry's line about mda procmail to my
> procmailrc

Which was? :-?

> I now move on to my next problem,

I'm happy it worked at last :-)

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson