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Re: Newbie - How do I get procmail to create a mailbox correctly?

2006-03-07 10:13:27

On 06 Mar 2006, at 08:07 , John Binder wrote:

procmail  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
     flags=R user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/procmail -t -m /etc/procmailrc
$(sender) ${recipient} ${user}

It seems that whenever a new user is added the /var/mail/username  
file is
created but the ownership will always be nobody

Well, yes.  Of course it will.  You set the owner to nobody and it  
can't "drop" privs because it has no privs to drop.


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