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Re: procmail problem
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:06:19PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> David Resnick <David@Resnick.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just upgraded to RH6 (from RH5.2), and now procmail refuses to process
> > my mail.
> >
> > maillog has:
> > May 22 15:01:26 hoi procmail[2895]: Suspicious rcfile
> > "/home/dmr/.procmailrc"
> >
> > The procmail man page says:
> > 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 ($HOME/.procmailrc) and ei-
> > ther it was group writable or the
> > directory that contained it was
> > group writable (the rcfile was not
> > used).
> > This is my home dir:
> > drwx------ 40 dmr dmr 3072 May 22 15:47 dmr
> >
> > and this is .procmailrc:
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 dmr dmr 1099 May 21 10:44 .procmailrc
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA,
> > David
>
> >From your own message and the man page snippet you quote, it looks
> like this is the default rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc), and it is group
> writable. The easy solution is
Yes, that does the trick. I thought that world writable meant that
"other" could write to it, and not just the group. Thanks a lot for the
help.
David
>
> chmod 600 ~/.procmailrc
>
> - try it.
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt goldshmt@netvision.net.il
> BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) oleg@bfr.co.il