[cobalt-developers] Procmail bugg on RaQ3

[Jo Skjermo <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Does anyone got a fix for the bugg described below
I realy dont like to tell people to take away
write rights for group on their home-dir to get
procmail to work.

Thanks
Jo Skjermo
jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Description from
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html#group-writable


Upgrading to 3.12/3.13/3.14 breaks Procmail on systems with group-writable
home directories (e.g. Red Hat Linux) 
This is known to the Red Hat folks, and a fixed RPM is apparently in the
works. See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2242
(Apparently this can also bite when upgrading to Red Hat 6 from an earlier
version.)
This is not a problem if Procmail was compiled correctly. For example,
Debian has group-per-user, too, but the current .deb package was correctly
compiled to reflect this. 
The general explanation is that Procmail was tweaked to be more paranoid
about security issues, and will not accept an rc file if it is
group-writable. This is a non-issue on systems where the only member of
the group will be the user herself; for those systems, there is a
GROUP_PER_USER switch in config.h which needs to be enabled before
compiling Procmail. (This was not done for Red Hat's procmail-3.13-1 RPM
but should hopefully be fixed in the next. An independently fixed RPM
seems to be available at http://cs.wilpaterson.edu/~scottw/shebang/ but
this appears not to be "official".) 
One of the popular error messages returned in bounces in this situation
seems to be "Service unavailable" which is not very helpful. (See the
smrsh question below, too.)