[Dovecot] Second user problems

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Feb 18 19:00:07 EET 2006


On Saturday 18 February 2006 15:37, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> On 2006-02-18 05:00:11 -0500 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:42, Stroller wrote:
> >> On 17 Feb 2006, at 12:17, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> Feb 17 09:21:19 packbell procmail[3149]: Suspicious rcfile
> >>> "/home/david/.procmailrc"
> >>> ...
> >>> Suspicious procmailrc - I added new/ to the path today, as someone
>
> Err.  No.
>
> >> I don't use procmail, but I think maildrop shits out if the
> >> permissions on its equivalent (".mailfilter") file are too liberal.
> >> Can you post `ls -l ~david/.procmailrc ~anne/.procmailrc`, please?
> >
> > -rw-r--r--  1 anne users 2433 Feb 15 11:28 /home/anne/.procmailrc
> > -rw-r--r--  1 anne users  467 Feb 17 09:14 /home/david/.procmailrc
>
> Bingo.  David's .procmailrc is "suspicious" because Anne owns it.  procmail
> executing as David has permission to read, though.
>
Amy, you're a star, and I'm blind as a bat!

Thanks - he can now receive his mail, and my life will be considerably less 
harassed :-)

Anne
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