procmail & .forward

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Jeetendra Mirchandani um 16:01:
> but what does it do?
> can i do without it?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jeetu

I assume you want to invoke something like SpamAssassin with this
command rule. Am I right?

You did not say with any word which MTA you are using. Is it Sendmail or
Postfix or any different? If you are running Sendmail I suggest you call
SA using MimeDefang.

The command line does follwing:
-sets IFS (Internal Field Separator - see man bash) to a simple space
- and calls procmail by exchanging the shell (see man bash)
- if the procmail call fails it will exit with error code 75 providing
the username for whom the .forward call was made.

Alexander


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