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Re: Puzzling problem

2003-12-01 09:13:01

    Michael> On Nov 25, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Mark Leisher wrote:
    >> Procmail is invoked from user ~/.forward files.

    Michael> Later you say that it is invoked by Sendmail.  " Which is it?

Sendmail invokes .forward if the permissions are right.

    >> Situation: Created two test accounts that are identical in everything
    >> ...

    Michael> And the names of these two accounts would be ...?

/home/tmpusr1 and /home/tmpusr2

    >> Created an empty ~/.procmailrc file in both accounts with mode 600 and
    >> proper owner+group.

    Michael> Is there a writable directory in their path?  Any interesting
    Michael> hints in logfiles, like /var/log/mail.log, or ...?

No writable directories in their path, no messages in any log files from the
account that doesn't seem to work.
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