--- Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joe Janitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I made some modifications to the homedir files:
> >
> >$HOME/.qmail now has
> >| preline /usr/bin/procmail -m
> /home/joe/.procmailrc
> >
> >(the -m file was previously mis-named)
> >
> >and $HOME/.procmailrc has
> >PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
> >ORGMAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
> >MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> >DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox #completely optional
> >LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
> >
> >Does this mean I have to have these two files in
> >every home directory!?
>
> No. First, procmail doesn't need the -m flag. See
> the procmail section
> in LWQ:
>
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#procmail
>
> Also, if you want delivery via procmail to be the
> default, specify
> that on the qmail-start command line, or in the
> control/defaultdelivery file if you installed using
> LWQ.
I think I was already doing this, my
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script called qmail-start
'|preline procmail' splogger qmail &
> Finally, you can specify a systemwide default
> procmailrc in
> /etc/procmailrc.
I read about that, but since that file didn't already
exist on my system, I wondered if it would be looked
for at all (if I created it). I never got around to
testing it.
> >And does it also mean that any
> >user can screw his mail up by accidentally deleting
> >these files? I have to say, though this works, I'm
> not
> >particularly comfortable with it...
>
> You can't really save your users from themselves...
But you can make it harder for them to auto-hank...
In any case, I've since downloaded the procmail
source, edited src/authenticate.c to include
#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/Mailbox"
and recompiled.
Now it works great without any $HOME/.qmail or
$HOME/.procmailrc or /etc/procmailrc
Thanks for writing.
Joe
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