[Dovecot] deliver & procmail

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Thu Feb 28 20:51:24 EET 2008


On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> Thanks for the information.  I have one additional question, it is
> probably not a Dovecot question more of a Procmail question.  I tried
> adding the above code to my /etc/procmailrc file but it did not work.  Do
> I have to put that code in each users .procmailrc file?  I would prefer to
> just put it in on a system wide basis.
>
> My current /etc/procmailrc file has this line:
>
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
>
> Do I keep that line and put the above Deliver code in?  And if so, do I
> keep the DEFAULT line at the top or after the Deliver code?

Since /etc/procmailrc is executed as root typically, you probably need to 
make this the first line of it:

DROPPRIVS=YES

At least, that's what I have, and that's my recollection of my reason. (-:

-- Asheesh.

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