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Conclusion and thanks (was Re: Qmail and procmail: How to get rid of "_Couldn't_Create_" ?)

1997-11-11 15:44:55
Thanks, I'm now using procmail 3.11pre7 with MAILSPOOLHOME="/.mail" and all is
groovy!

Thus Spake Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>:

Get procmail 3.11pre7 and uncomment and and correct for your local
setup the MAILSPOOLHOME define in src/authenticate.c.  Compile and
install.

Can you give some example values to set this to?  It is "/.mail" in the 
source
file, does that mean that the absolute path of the locks will be
"/.mail/something"?  Or is it relative to the home directory?  Since each 
home
user has a different mail spool for qmail, I would hope for the latter, but I
can't decode the source yet.

It's relative to the user's home directory.  Thus the name "MAILSPOOLHOME".

I am going to set it to "/tmp" to test what happens.
Is that insecure?

No.  You'll just want to change it to something better.