On 08/20/2014 07:08 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I don't remember who handles .forward files, but I think it is postfix. Normally postfix invokes procmail directly, not via .forward.
You are correct about the handling of dot-forward. That's done by the MTA, postfix, sendmail, and IIR others such as Smail-3 and qmail. I haven't used the latter for a couple of decades now so I'm not absolutely sure, but a quick google seems indicate that it is so. However your "normally" assertion ... that's not so. *Some* - and only some - people choose to edit the postfix master,cf file to directly handle any one of a number of things, mailman, spamassassin, procmail, or more. It doesn't have to be that way and I have made the conscious decision not to, but rather the make use of the dot-forward. Reading your earlier post I may revise that, but no right now. I have dental surgery coming up and I want to get past that. Some time I may take you up on this alternative and discuss it off-list. On a more general level, *all* of the software we are discussing is very extensively configurable on a per-system basis and "your system looks nothing like mine" because of personal, conscious decisions. All this isn't about right and wrong, but about what works. What works for you can be quite different, because of those design and architectural decisions, from what works for me. That's the wonder of UNIX/Linux, something we can revel in and something that scares away many people who want "certainties" rather than opportunities. The reality is that I have more in common with Linda than with 85% of the people I meet in the course of a normal day. We're all there out on the fringe. And some people are even further out than us! -- I'm often surprised at what I think is self-evident but isn't to others. -- Jim Henderson, 27.05.2012 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org