On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:50:07 +0200, you wrote:
>Akkana and James, thanks for your advice!
>
>Well this user seems to be truly paranoid. He doesn't have *any*
>email client on his local computer, and checks all his mail via
>another server in pine.
Phew! Paranoia like that suggests he works for the FBI, investigating
all their unsolved alien-related cases :-)
>He's rapidly getting to be somewhat of an annoyance, since now he
>wants to set up forwarding with a subject prefix with a procmail
>script. (why didn't he tell me he wanted the mail to be forwarded
>inthe first place?? grrrr) Now...I am not happy with this, for
>various reasons (the primarily one is,this server hosts several sites
>and 70+ users, and he's not even a primary account holder - basically
>just a buddy of one of the primary account holders) and I've already
>spent way too much time on complying to his requests. I can easily
>set up forwarding for him with aliases, but I'm trying to find an
>argument for not using procmail scripts. Are there any I could throw,
>er, communicate to him (something about security would be nice)
>that would be a good argument for not setting up a procmail script
>just for him?
If procmail is already installed and he has a proper shell account on
the server (which is the impression I get), he should be able to set
it up himself - so I don't think there are really any security issues
you could raise. I suggest you tell him "Yes, you can have a procmail
script, but you'll have to set it up yourself" - after all, this is
really a configuration issue, and surely your hosting doesn't include
fixing the user's HTML errors etc?!
James.
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