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Re: Permissions

1998-02-26 12:04:04
I've got procmail 3.11pre7 installed as the mailing agent on my FreeBSD 2.2.5
machine here at work and also use Elm v2.4 as my reader.  

Now here's the rub: When procmail creates a new file for elm to read (yes, 
elm uses flat files for its mail folders), it gives it -rw------- permissions 
with root and root as the owner and group of the files respectively.  

To enable elm to read the files, I have to go in and either change the 
permissions, 
or change the owner to me.  Is there a way to set up procmail to use the 
$USER 
variable as the owner of the file(s)?  (And yes, I have dug through the man
pages)

When you say that procmail is creating a new file for elm to read, do you
mean in your mail spool directory where your mail would normally be
delivered, or is this a mailbox created via some sort of filter?  If the
latter, is the filter in your /etc/procmailrc file or in one local to
your home directory?

Chris

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