On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Philip Hazel spake thusly:
> I am utterly ignorant about fetchmail, I'm afraid. Is there anyway you
> can get this Exim run to happen with debugging turned on? That will
> show us what uid/gid it is running under.
I will remember this for the future.
> A guess: Fetchmail is calling Exim using SMTP, and you have recipient
> verification turned on, and you have not set "no_verify" on the router
> that handles .mailfilter. If that is the case, try setting "no_verify"
> on that router. When Exim is verifying recipients, it is running as
> "exim", which probably explains why it can't read the file. During
> delivery, it changes from root to the local user when handling a
> filter file (in the 'normal' configuration).
>
Thanks for that. That sorted it. Not sure why I did not copy that when I
copied the rest of the procmail setup for Maildrop which is the
application that handles .mailfilter files.
Sean
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