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Re: Check simple .procmailrc?

2002-01-09 07:11:55
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* On 09-01-02 at 15:09 
* Martin McCarthy said....


This is one of the things that Sean's script would have spotted for you,
I believe.  Presumably the permissions on /home/nick/.procmailrc and/or
/home/nick are also 777.  Procmail recognises that as a security problem
and refuses to use an unsafe .procmailrc.  If you take a look at 'man
procmail' you'll find:

       Suspicious rcfile "x"  The owner of the rcfile was not the
                              recipient or  root,  the  file  was
                              world  writable,  or  the directory
                              that   contained   it   was   world
                              writable,  or  this was the default
                              rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc) and  ei-
                              ther  it  was group writable or the
                              directory  that  contained  it  was
                              group  writable (the rcfile was not
                              used).

Set the permissions on .procmailrc to, say, 640 and on /home/nick to,
say, 755 and try again.


Well that must be it! Out of pure exasperation I just re-wrote it and
didn't touch the permissions. Now it's all working very smoothly!

Now the real learning can start.

Much thanks for your help Martin
- -- 

Nick Wilson

Tel:    +45 3325 0688
Fax:    +45 3325 0677
Web:    www.explodingnet.com



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