Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 27772
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3/20    I'm converting from slocal to procmail on soda and I'm wondering
        if I need my .forward to invoke procmail or will sendmail do that
        automatically (and reliably) if I just have a .procmailrc file? tia.
        \_ .procmailrc is all you need (on soda at least).
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12/29   There have been a lot of complaints regarding soda reliability and
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5/7     Dear csua, looks like /usr/bin/spamc and /usr/bin/formail don't exist
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