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Procmail problems with HP-UX 10.01

1996-03-27 17:27:25
I'm running procmail v3.10 on a HP9000/712-60 running HP-UX 10.01,
sendmail 8.7.5 and I installed procmail in the Mlocal line in sendmail.cf
I've run into some strange problems.

It is my understanding of procmail that if no /etc/procmailrc's or
$HOME/.procmailrc exists, it should behave like a normal local delivery
agent. This does not work for me.  My mailbox is "/var/mail/ra" but
procmail insists on delivering my mail to "/var/mail/daemon" and then
gives that mailbox incorrect permissions.

ra(_at_)strympa> ll /var/mail/daemon
-rw-------   1 daemon   mail        7671 Mar 27 22:29 /var/mail/daemon

(should be mode 660)

ra(_at_)strympa> grep Mlocal /etc/sendmail.cf
#Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsSDFMhPfn, S=10, R=20, A=procmail -a $h 
-d $u
Mlocal,  P=/usr/bin/rmail,  F=DFMPlms,  S=10,  R=20,  A=rmail -d $u

(I tryed to use the same mailerflags as rmail wants but that gave the same
results)  So I had to put rmail back in action.

procmail (and other executables are in /usr/local/bin) as:
-rwxr-sr-x   1 ra       mail       16476 Mar 27 00:01 lockfile
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ra       starf      37003 Mar 27 00:01 formail
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ra       starf       5390 Mar 27 00:01 mailstat
-rwsr-sr-x   1 root     mail       90556 Mar 27 22:24 procmail

sendmail is:
-r-sr-sr-t   1 root     mail      316176 Mar 23 16:20 /usr/sbin/sendmail

but runs as user daemon.

Finally, procmail is configured:

procmail v3.10 1994/10/31 written and created by Stephen R. van den Berg
                                
berg(_at_)pool(_dot_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de

Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to:
        procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to:
        procmail-request(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de

Locking strategies:     dotlocking, fcntl()
Default rcfile:         $HOME/.procmailrc
System mailbox:         /var/mail/$LOGNAME


If anybody has any Idea's please let me know.
Regards, and thanks in advance.
-- 
     Richard Allen, Systems and Network Administrator, Computing Services,
         University of Iceland. Tel: +354 5254903, Fax: +354 5528801
  (Life ? Life is like a hot bath, feels great while you are in it, but the)
           (longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get [Garfield])

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