How would a person other than the admin of a machine tell if
RH 6.0's sendmail was configured to use procmail?
I'm asking because I've been trying to get procmail to
work on a system I'm web designing for and the sysadmin
has been no help.
Here is some misc info.
I've checked all permissions on .procmailrc, ~eveoke (home dir) etc.
I've tested procmail using procmail < /tmp/msg and it appears to be
working fine.
But, procmail does not seem to be getting called
by sendmail because any mail sent just get's deposited in the
INBOX and procmail.log is untouched.
Its running RH 6.0
<SNIP>
% uname -a
Linux void.gloom.org 2.2.9 #6 Fri Jul 2 03:20:13 PDT 1999 i586 unknown
% ls -ld ~eveoke
drwxr-xr-x 9 eveoke eveoke 1024 Jul 9 07:40 /home/eveoke
% ls -l .procmailrc
-rw------- 1 eveoke eveoke 163 Jul 9 07:40 .procmailrc
<SNIP>
Here is .procmailrc
<SNIP>
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/eveoke
LOGFILE=/home/eveoke/mail/procmail.log
VERBOSE=on
SHELL=/bin/csh
:0c:
* ^Subject.*(test)
mail/testing
:0
*
! justinm(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
<SNIP>
Thank you for any and all help you can provide.
-Justin
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Clark Evans wrote:
] It works! *big smile*
]
] I followed the corrective measures given
] by you all ( Jeff, Thornton, and Aaron),
] thanks tons!
]
] 1. I think it was permissions, you cannot
] have write access on your home directory,
] nor can you (stupid me) have execute
] access on the .procmailrc file.
]
] 2. You do not have a .forward, and in
] fact, having one messes everything up!
]
] I'd like to especially thank Karl,
] who gave me an easier way to test
] stuff (following). It's hard to try
] various combinations without a nice
] repeatable test plan. Thanks Karl.
]
] Best wishes,
]
] Clark
]
]
] > ------- Original Message --------
] > Subject: Re: RH 6.0 out of box?
] > Date: 8 Jul 1999 21:36:04 -0400
] > From: vogelke(_at_)c17mis(_dot_)region2(_dot_)wpafb(_dot_)af(_dot_)mil
] > Organization: Sumaria Systems Inc.
] > To: clark(_dot_)evans(_at_)manhattanproject(_dot_)com
] >
] > >> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:24:27 -0400 (EDT),
] > >> "Clark C. Evans" <clark(_dot_)evans(_at_)manhattanproject(_dot_)com>
said:
] >
] > C> Hello. I've spent several hours trying to get procmail to work out of
] > C> the box with no success, is there something special for sendmail that
] > C> has to be done by the sysadmin?
] >
] > If you're really running smrsh, a symbolic link may not be enough; does
] > the link live in /etc/smrsh, and is it pointing to the real binary
] > elsewhere?
] >
] > The best way to check is create a file called MAILLOG in your mail
] > directory, and add this to your .procmailrc file:
] >
] > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/MAILLOG
] > VERBOSE=on
] >
] > Then create a small test message in (say) /tmp/msg which looks like
] > this:
] >
] > cut here -------------------
] > From foo(_at_)bar Thu Jul 8 16:50:13 1999
] > Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:24:27 -0400 (EDT)
] > From: "Someone" <someuser(_at_)some(_dot_)host>
] > To: vogelke
] > Subject: RH 6.0 out of box?
] > Message-ID: <msgid-goes-here>
] >
] > This is a test.
] >
] > cut here -------------------
] >
] > Get rid of the spaces in column 1, run this command, and see what ends
] > up in the MAILLOG file:
] >
] > procmail < /tmp/msg
] >
] > --
] > Karl Vogel
] > ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
] > vogelke(_at_)c17mis(_dot_)region2(_dot_)wpafb(_dot_)af(_dot_)mil or
kvogel(_at_)sumaria(_dot_)com
] >
] > Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
] > --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society,
1895.
]
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