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user shell requirments for procmail to work?

2001-05-07 09:07:06
Hi,

I have just been tweaking with procmail to have mail delivered to
$HOME/.mail instead of the usual /var/spool.
Up to now, I had a standard Redhat 6.1 configuration, which does not
have any procmailrc files present on the system.
I only have a few users so I put a basic .procmailrc file in each home
directory.
However, I noticed that everything is fine for normal user accounts that
have been created with a valid shell, and hence have the .bashrc files
and so forth in their home directories, but I also have some users set
up as POP users only. I set up home directories with .procmailrc files
for these, but mail was only delivered there once I set them up with a
valid shell.

My concern is that I don't want to give shell permissions to mail-only
users. 

Any guidance welcome.

TIA

Peter Rose
London UK
"I don't like your fashion business mister" 
  - Leonard Cohen / First We Take Manhattan
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