On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Liviu Daia wrote:
Ok, then here's yet another approach: deliver messages from procmail
directly to mailboxes in all those users' homes. No sendmail involved,
_much_ lower loads.
Good idea!
:0:someuser.lock
* <condition>
| cat >> /var/spool/mail/someuser
should do it. Well, almost: a `chown someuser /var/spool/mail/someuser'
needs to be added to the recipe too.
Also, very safe due to procmails file locking capabilities.
But IMHO not as safe as forwarding because another sendmail delivering
to /var/spool/mail/someuser is not locked out, or is it?
If not, this may corrupt the mailbox.
Otherwise a really great. Can't get any simpler.
So, how to lock out sendmails from other accounts for this to work?
Regards, Walter
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