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Re: Doesn't work at all ...

1996-11-19 08:03:42
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Diethard Ohrt wrote:

The effect is:
If I send a mail as myself, everything's o.k.; but if somebody else (or me as
someone else) sends a mail (i.e. "burg" as in my .procmailrc below), he just
gets back his own mail message -- unchanged!! Besides, the log file is _empty_
if someone else mails me, _only_ when _I_ send mails _to_me_ (what for should
I do this?) it has some entries ...

Sounds like a permissions problem. Your HOME directory and .forward 
should be world-readable. 

Also, every directory leading to the procmail binary should be world 
readable. Make sure that procmail can be executed by all users.

See my .forward file:
"|IFS=' '&&p=/users/ohrt/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 
#ohrt"

One last note: sheck the permissions on the /var/mail directory. If it's 
not world writeable, you will need to change the default mailbox. (Unless 
you can install procmail sgid mail.)

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