On Thu, January 19, 2006 12:06 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Does anyone know a way of forcing the local ~/.procmailrc to take >> precedence over the system-wide /etc/procmailrc? At the moment it wseems >> to be the other way round. > > I don't believe the man page of procmail is inaccurate: > > If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command line, > proc- > mail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc, interpret commands > from > /etc/procmailrc (if present). Care must be taken when > creating > /etc/procmailrc, because, if circumstances permit, it will be > executed > with root privileges (contrary to the $HOME/.procmailrc file > of > course). > > You're probably stuck with that order of things. You could try to > INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmailrc from /etc/procmailrc, but you better search > the procmail resources for the correct way to do this and for any > potentially deadly side effects of this. In particular, read "... will > be executed with root privileges..." another 3 times for some ideas of > what might happen to those who try to pull tricks on /etc/procmailrc... > Read the warnings section of man procmail. Thanks for that - I think I'll get rid of the one in /etc and add a default .procmailrc into /etc/skel instead. > > Perhaps you should reassess your overall setup? Don't you think that this might be what I am doing? > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > Cheers,
Steve -- Work like you don't need the money, Love like your heart has never been broken and Dance like no one can see you.
