On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:16:37PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Victor Duchovni <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com>:
>
> > Well, Postfix just executes "procmail" via your shell (when mailbox_command
> > contains shell metacharacters). Don't blame the messenger. The error message
> > is from your shell, which clearly reports not being able to run the
> > /usr/bin/procmail executable.
>
> Maybe smrsh?
Not at all likely. Postfix does not use "smrsh". With mailbox_command,
Postfix explicitly uses the compiled-in path of the Bourne shell:
(void) execl(_PATH_BSHELL, "sh", "-c", command, (char *) 0);
msg_fatal("execl %s: %m", _PATH_BSHELL);
It is mostly pointless to use smrsh with procmail, as procmail allows
users to bypass the restrictions imposed by smrsh. This is explained
in the smrsh manpage:
Also, including mail filtering programs such as procmail(1)
is a very bad idea. procmail(1) allows users to run arbitrary
programs in their procmailrc(5).
--
Viktor.
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