Are you looking to have everyone's potential spam sent to you/a generic mailbox?
While this might seem like a good idea, in theory, false positives do wind up in there, and you might wind up viewing messages that you might not otherwise see or want to. On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Anthony Hologounis wrote: > I think I tried that but Procmail runs as the user so that wouldnt work unless > I use 666 permissions or like a previous poster mentioned , put all users in > the same group anddo 660 permissions > > On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:22, Mike Burger wrote: > > You definitely don't need 666 permissions on the folder. > > > > If you're testing it, you could just redirect it to a folder/file in your > > own home directory...like /home/anthony/mail/SPAM. > > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Anthony Hologounis wrote: > > > Let me ask, so this is the best way to handle spam? > > > > > > Righ tnow I have a folder called /var/spool/mail/SPAM that has 666 > > > permissions. I think this is dangerous but I want to be able to collect > > > all of the spam in one folder. > > > So I can see how well my procmail/spamassassin settigns are working. > > > > > > If there is another way of doing this thenenlightenme.... > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > Anthony > > > > > > >The problem, I think, is that you're trying to have each user's account > > > >write the spam to /var/spool/mail/caughtspam. > > > > > > > >Only one user can own that file, and if it's not been set with > > > > permissions to allow world to write to it, they won't be able to. > > > > > > > >Hence the reason I filter it to "$HOME/mail/caughtspam"...it's going to > > > >the user's own subdirectory, off of their own home directory, where > > > >they'll have permission to write. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-list mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
