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    On many systems you need to make your .forward world 
    readable and your home directory world searchable in order for the
    mail transport agent to "see" it.  To do this type:
   
      cd
      chmod 644 .forward
      chmod a+x .

Also check everything carefully in the .procmailrc file, specially the
paths. This works fine for me. Hope it helps.

Regards

-Khurram Matin Khan.
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Morten wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> I made a .procmailrc file and wanted to setup procmail
> to do filtering according to the rc file. I have
> problems activating procmail however, in my .forward
> file I put "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" as it is in the
> man pages.
> 
> When I try to send mail to the filtering address, it
> bounces, like below.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Morten
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:01:37 -0100
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON cauda caput com>
> To: c960901 student dtu dk
> Subject: Returned mail: /home/morten/.forward: 
> line 1: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"... 
> Address <morten cauda caput dk> is unsafe for mailing to programs
> 
> The original message was received at Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:01:37 -0100
> from IDENT:root corpus caput dk [194.182.253.170]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
>     (expanded from: <morten cauda caput dk>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 /home/morten/.forward: line 1: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"... 
> Address <morten cauda caput dk> is unsafe for mailing to programs
>