On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:33:06 -0900, Floyd Davidson wrote:

I've been running RH9 with this /etc/hosts for a few months, with
no visible problems:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.2 zenith.homelinux.net zenith

I've just changed it to the following, and will drop a followup if
any adverse effects result:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 zenith.homelinux.net zenith
127.0.0.3 localhost.localdomain

Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com> wrote:
Great! Thanks!

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:54:42 -0800, /dev/rob0 wrote:


In RH9 I do have a .forward file having the following line

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #srikanth"

Then with Spamassassin I use to filter out spam.

The same .forward file I created in my home directory in Slack also
(at the time of original posting itself). Still it did not work!

I am at my wits' end.

After using RH, I thought of using slack to use a true unix like OS,
But I am struggling to get thru initial steps itself.
Ok , but I am not going to give up!

Cheeka

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:54:42 -0800, /dev/rob0 wrote:

Hi

Finally as pointed out above the following retrieved may mails

fetchmail -u srikanthns -p pop3 -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" mail.vsnl.com

This was in "man fetchmail", but it was mentioned that it was the
default listening behaviour on SMTP port 25, so I left it.

Now I gave it in command line and it smoothly downloads all the
mails and puts it in var/spool/mail/srikanth.

Now major problem solved and one small grouse.
Spamassassin does not seem to be working though the setup I
did was similar to what I did in RH9.
Must have got some thing to do with Perl shipped with Slack.

Hmmm... Let me see

Thanks for all the help.

Cheeka

In article <pan.2003.12.01.13.46.17.136249@hotmail.com>,
N S Srikanth wrote:
You do not need a ~/.forward file to pass incoming mail to procmail,
which is the default LDA anyway.

I don't use this so I don't know. Check their docs and maybe
comp.mail.misc or other *.mail.* groups?
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/dev/rob0 - preferred_email=i$((28*28+28))@softhome.net
or put "not-spam" or "/dev/rob0" in Subject header to reply

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:37:44 -0900, Floyd Davidson wrote:

No problem. It's been fine so far. (Unless the system has cached
the old contents or something, but I'm not particularly interested
in rebooting just to find out. If it *does* break, it'll be plenty
easy to fix.)