From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Thu Aug 31 13:37:07 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5935 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2000 20:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Aug 2000 20:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO simba.math.ucla.edu) (128.97.4.125) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2000 20:37:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (jimc@localhost) by simba.math.ucla.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e7VKb6O00594; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:37:06 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: simba.math.ucla.edu: jimc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) To: Taral Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Just in case you're interested In-Reply-To: <20000831192630.E9A8826332@mail.taral.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: "James F. Carter" It turned out his home site has a policy against program mailers, or at least *that* program mailer, in .forward files, which became clear when his sysop forwarded a bounce message to him. My version of procmail (3.14) will honor a preset ORGMAIL environment variable as the name of the system mailbox, or will set it to /var/spool/mail/$USER (I assume this is adjusted to operating system idiosyncracies at compile time). But to my knowledge, sendmail doesn't set this; it considers the mailer to be responsible to decide what file to put the mail in. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Internet: jimc@math.ucla.edu (finger for PGP key) UUCP:...!{ucsd,ames,ncar,gatech,purdue,rutgers,decvax,uunet}!math.ucla.edu!jimc On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Taral wrote: > On 31 Aug, James F. Carter wrote: > > > > had a problem making my .procmailrc example function. > > I'm guessing here, but it's possible that since he's in a commercial > > environment, the system mailboxes are not in the usual location of > > /usr/spool/mail/$USER, and procmail doesn't know about the special > > location. (At UCLA-Mathnet we also put mailboxes in a special directory, > > but we have symbolic links so hardwired /usr/spool/mail/$USER still > > works.) > > Actually, procmail should deliver to $MAIL by default. Is it being set > right on your system? > > -- > Taral > Please use PGP/GPG to send me mail. >