Yesterday the procmail executable somehow ended up being owned by a
regular userid rather than root. Whe I discovered that mail wasn't being
delivered I saw the problem in syslog (procmail[2926]: Insufficient
privileges to deliver to "ball") and I fixed it.
My question is: Is there a way to prevent losing mail should this happen
again? (since I don't know how it happened I can't rule out another
occurrance)
Procmail is defined as the local mail delivery agent in the sendmail.cf
file. Is there a way to have sendmail know that procmail had a problem and
to put all the mail to another, fallback, delivery program (/bin/mail
maybe or another instance of procmail in a different location)?
Richard
ball(_at_)merck(_dot_)com