>On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, M. Brownsworth wrote:
>
>> Ah, sorry. My procmail is doing system-wide filtering and invokes
>> spamc.
>>
>> $DEFAULT is the default used by the vanilla procmail from FreeBSD
>> 4.5's port. The default mail spool directory is /var/mail. The Perl
>> script to redeliver runs as root.
>
>OK, then ... you need to prevent procmail from reading the system-wide
>procmailrc, so you're going to need to specify a different recipe file
>on the command line. Also:
>
>> Accordingly, I would need to supply the user, right?
>
>Yes, but ...
>
>> So:
>>
>> formail -s procmail $username < /var/log/spam/$file
>
>"procmail foo" means that "foo" is a file containing filter recipes, not
>that "foo" is a user. (Read "man procmailrc"?) "procmail -d $username"
>means what you intend.
>
>Unfortunately you can't both specify a recipient on the command line and
>also specify a recipe file on the command line. So your best bet is to
>have the perl script change user ID to the intended recipient, e.g. like
>this:
>
> $< = $> = $userid;
>
>and then invoke
>
> formail -s procmail /dev/null < /var/log/spam/$file
>
>where /dev/null is used as the recipe file and therefore no filtering is
>done. If you need to run the user's own procmail recipes, you need
>something like
>
> formail -s procmail /home/$username/.procmailrc < /var/log/spam/$file
>
>(replacing /home/$username with the appropriate path).
Yes, the following did the trick:
($< = $>) = $uid; # Set process to run as recipient for delivery
system("/usr/local/bin/formail -s /usr/local/bin/procmail /dev/null <
/var/log/spam/$file");
Works perfectly. Many thanks for the help.
Best,
.\\ichelle
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Michelle Brownsworth
System Administrator
Willamette.Net
http://www.willamette.net
Phone (541) 465-3282
Fax (541) 465-1194
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