David Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just upgraded to RH6 (from RH5.2), and now procmail refuses to process
> my mail.
> 
> maillog has:
> May 22 15:01:26 hoi procmail[2895]: Suspicious rcfile
> "/home/dmr/.procmailrc"
> 
> The procmail man page says:
>       Suspicious rcfile "x"  The owner of the rcfile was not the
>                               recipient or  root,  the  file  was
>                               world  writable,  or  the directory
>                               that   contained   it   was   world
>                               writable,  or  this was the default
>                               rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc) and  ei-
>                               ther  it  was group writable or the
>                               directory  that  contained  it  was
>                               group  writable (the rcfile was not
>                               used).                                            
> This is my home dir:
> drwx------  40 dmr      dmr          3072 May 22 15:47 dmr                      
> 
> and this is .procmailrc:
> -rw-rw-r--   1 dmr      dmr          1099 May 21 10:44 .procmailrc              
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA,
>         David

>From your own message and the man page snippet you quote, it looks
like this is the default rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc), and it is group
writable. The easy solution is 

chmod 600 ~/.procmailrc

- try it.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt          [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM)     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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