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Re: Procmail problems with rules...

2002-03-11 00:34:35
At 14:08 2002-03-08 -0500, Ghislain Levesque did say:

I have just download Procmail 3.22 and install it on Sun Solaris 8. I have modify the /etc/sendmail.cf and create
a .procmailrc for the user "root" and it's working fine.

Nothing to do with your problem, but as a general security measure, it's often a good idea to have root's email handled by another account (using an alias). That way, you're never tempted to use an insecure protocol to access root's email from a remote system, thus exposing your root password. It also means that when running external processes from procmail (as this other user), you're not running them as _root_, which can lead to other issues if you botch something.

 If I took the same rule and copy it into a home directory of
someone else, I'm getting this error whan receiving an e-mail :

Mar 8 13:01:17 rocket procmail[3057]: [ID 185714 mail.alert] Suspicious rcfile "/home/dlgldb/.procmailrc"

see 'man procmail'.

Here is the rule ( just for testing ):

As per the manpage, the error has NOTHING to do with the rule itself - it has to do with ownership and permissions of the rcfile or the directory in which it is located.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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