<quote who="David">

> I want to send mail for an alias into a file thus:
> 
> /etc/aliases:
> foo: /home/david/foo/foomail
> 
> but I get a permission problem with it. The mail bounces with a permission
> denied message, even if I make /home/david/foo world writable.
> If I send foo's mail to /tmp/foomail it works exactly as I would like it,
> but creating a file owned by "nobody".
> 
> Is there anyway to give "david" ownership of /home/david/foo/foomail?

What you mean with "foo: /dir/file" really is "put mail into file". But what
you really mean to say is "pipe mail into command", which is different. Like
this:

  foo: |/usr/bin/procmail

:-)

- Jeff

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