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Re: [cobalt-users] Unhappy procmail



From: "Kul" <WebMaster@xxxxxxx>

> > I am trying to get some prcomail rules for a specific user up and
running.
> > Here is the error I get in the log:
> >
> > procmail: Suspicious rcfile
"/home/sites/site1/users/username/.procmailrc"
> > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/sites/site1/users/username/.procmailrc"
>
> Do you have this as the first line of your ".procmailrc" file :
>     SHELL=/bin/sh

I do now :)

> If you are on a raq 3 or raq 4, it the parent directory permissions thats
making this sick probably.
> Try this:
>     chmod 2711 /home/sites/site1/users/username
>
> Make sure the ".procmailrc" file owned by "username", and that its an
ascii file and not binary (ie if you ftpd it)
>
> Then the problems should go away !

I did this, and now it seems that procmail is completely ignoring the rule.
It doesnt even say anything in the log (I have logfile=/var/log/procmail).
It logs info about other rules, but not this one.

Help!

Thanks,
Kevin