Well, I have hacked the problem, but I would like to know understand a little better, so here goes:
I am using exim for LDA (apparently) because I looked in exim.conf and just changed the delivery location to ~/.inbox and the permission to 600 and it works fine. Sort of. Problem being, that now when an individual user makes a .procmailrc file, it does nothing unless they forward pipe it to procmail, which is in a word gimpy. Also, I may be a lamer for this, but I'm not used to using exim and I can't seem to get the group set to the user's group for the .inbox file...the best I can do is group mail, which I don't like (even though no one is even going to belong to that group). So the question has mutated into A) How do I use procmail as my LDA, and B) how do I configure /etc/procmailrc to set group and owner correctly, provided that I can manage to deliver to the right user's mailbox. --adam b. -----Original Message----- From: Touloumtzis, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:41 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Quick mail delivery question On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:16:23PM -0400, Adam Bell wrote: > ... > I would like to have mail delivered to a mailbox file in each user's > home directory instead of residing in /var/spool/mail/foo. This is to > be the same as another environment my users are coming away from. > > I know that this can be accomplished using procmail automagically, > but I've tried to get it to work and it seems to want not to. Does > anyone have any ideas? Hi, Adam. Still having problems? I'm surprised no one has piped in. So here goes .... Could you be more specific about how procmail is failing you? Check out 'man procmail' and 'man procmailrc' (also 'man procmailex' for handy examples). Note the .procmailrc LOGFILE and VERBOSE options for getting diagnostic info. IIRC the .procmailrc permissions should be restricted (600), but I may be dreaming or thinking of .fetchmailrc. At any rate, procmail is very powerful (more so as I understand than exim filtering) and should do anything you need it to do once you get it working. Regards - MikeT -- Michael Touloumtzis Computer Associates Senior Software Developer tel: +1 508 628-8262 fax: +1 508 820-2934 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
