[ale] Another odd procmail question

[Nick Lucent]

Heres mine it works fine
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #nlucent"

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Joe Bayes wrote:

> 
> Has anybody ever had a problem using a combination of fetchmail,
> sendmail, and procmail? I want to dl my mail from a mailbox, and then
> pass it to procmail to sort into folders. I have the line 
> "|/usr/bin/procmail # jbayes" in my .forward. When I try to d/l my
> mail, the messages all bounce back to the sender with the following
> error: 
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/bin/procmail # jbayes"
>     (expanded from: <jbayes at localhost>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "|/usr/bin/procmail # jbayes"... Service unavailable
> 
> I found something in the docs about sendmail not wanting to execute
> arbitrary programs unless they were in /etc/shells, but I followed the
> Sendmail docs' directions for doctoring up /etc/shells and it still
> didn't work. 
> 
> It seems like this combination shouldn't be too uncommon. Anybody else
> ever had this problem?
> 
> --joe
> 

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