[Scottish] Pcomail Failing

Martin McCarthy scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jun 23 18:42:00 2003


>     Martin McCarthy: In responce to your email. Procmail is not being invoked
> and as you asked the permissions of the home dir is drwxr-s--- and of the
> procmail file -rwxrwx---

If your MTA (sendmail or exim or whatever) is trying to use procmail
then it should be logging a "suspicious rcfile" error somewhere.
Procmail will refuse to run if it thinks there's a possible security
issue.
Try

  chmod 600 .procmailrc

and see if that fixes anything.

Martin
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