Re: [SLUG] Procmail woes

[Nick Croft <nicko@nospam.acay.com.au>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Anand Kumria wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 01:05:13PM +1000, Nick Croft wrote:
> > It still won't work.
> > 
> > I set it up in another user on the same machine and it all works fine!!
> > 
> > I wonder what's wrong with my account. The simple minded approach would be
> > to tar all my stuff, wipe the account and start again. Not very elegant
> > though.
> 
> Hmm, kinda tough to debug remotely.
> 
> Check:
> 
> 1. permissions on your home directory / .forward / .procmailrc
> 2. anything in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messgaes complaining about
>    something else (groups, etc.)
> 3. perhaps it is something to do with your shell, are they same?
> 
> Anand
> 
Thanks for the pointers.
I found the log --  /var/log/maillog. The record of each email message had
the line `Suspicious rcfile "/home/nicko/.procmailrc" '. Then the next
line shows the message being sent to nicko@nospam.localhost. 

The man procmails diagnostics section shows causes: (paraphrased)
	"owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root  (n/a)
	or, directory that contained it was world writable (it is)
	or it or its directory was group writable.
	(the rcfile was not used)"

I've compared it with the girlfriend's setup and made the permissions the
same (chmod 622). It seems to work now, though I've only had one SLUG
message since, but it seems to be right. What a relief - thanks!

Now for my next question...

Nick


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