<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 -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ It makes perfect sense. If you're a narcissistic arsehole spawned from a curdled gene pool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
