Re: [Exim] [newbie] exim and procmail

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [newbie] exim and procmail
Quoth ADAM Sulmicki on Mon, Aug 07, 2000:
> In the ~/.forward file I have

[snip]
>             "|/usr/bin/procmail"

>
> Then the error is
>
>     ------ |/usr/bin/procmail ------
>     procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/adam/.procmailrc"
>     procmail: Couldn't read "/home/adam/.procmailrc"


Hmm, it seems like procmail's problem. The line that you have
above should be enough. What are the owner, group and
permissions on your .procmailrc file? What UID and GID does the
pipe transport run under?

> I saw asnwer related to this in the exim FAQ, but, it does not seems like
> a complete solution as the "procmail_pipe" shown in the example is not
> defined.


You don't really need a special transport for that. What you
have in your .forward is enough.

Vadik.

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