begin quoting Don W. Jenkins as of Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:57:51PM -0800: > I have been having problems getting procmail to run at all, whether on > its own when fetchmail polls my mail account, or when I try to run it on > the mailbox after it has been downloaded. I think I have narrowed it > down to a problem of some sort with the .procmailrc file, but I'm not at > all sure what. I get the error: > > procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/oakman/.procmailrc" > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/oakman/.procmailrc"
This leads me to suspect permissions, either on the file, or on the path to the file (missing +x permission on a containing directory?). Anything interesting in the logs? > repeated for each message as it tries to process it. Here is my > procmailrc as it currently stands: > > > # Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones that > # are not. > > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games: Why don't you start by trimming down the PATH to just what you need? I'm sure that you don't need /usr/games in there, nor /usr/bin/X11. [snip] > to try and see what was going on. Still no luck. I also tried setting > the permission to 644, owner-oakman, group-users, with no luck. I'm not > sure what makes it a "suspicious rc file" and unreadable by procmail. > Any suggestions? Hm. ^[:r !ls -l $HOME/.procmailrc -rw------- 1 stremler stremler 7695 Jan 27 22:16 /home/stremler/.procmailrc -Stewart "How about a typescript of a test run?" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
