/etc/procmailrc vs ~/.procmailrc

["Peter Wisnovsky" <peter at wisnovsky dot net>]

I'm using fetchmail with procmail. My fetchmailrc says

    poll y.c protocol pop3 username x keep mda "procmail -d %T"

When my procmailrc is in ~/.procmailrc I get errors of the form:

    reading message x@y.c of 30 (2268 octets) ..procmail: Suspicious rcfile
"/home/psw/.procmailrc"
    procmail: Couldn't read "/home/psw/.procmailrc"
    not flushed

But when I look at ~/.procmailrc I see

 ~% head /home/psw/.procmailrc
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/pkg/mail/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/usr/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/INBOX.spool
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.logfile
VERBOSE=on
LOGABSTRACT=all

:0:
...

Home is where the heart is:

    % mount | grep /home
    c:\Documents and Settings on /home type system (textmode)

Curiously, if I mv .procmailrc to /etc/procmailrc it seems to work ok.

    reading message x@y.c:32 of 32 (1684 octets) . not flushed

/etc is also mounted textmode. /home/psw is my homedir in both the
/etc/passwd and HOME variable.

I don't mind that much having the procmailrc in /etc/ but it seems confusing
to me. I've had other problems with files not being readable (.Xresources
and mail spools with movemail) and am trying to understand this better.

- Perplexed by Procmail


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