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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