Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
Greg Matheson
lang@ms.chinmin.edu.tw
Wed Oct 23 07:31:00 GMT 2002
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Thomas Baker wrote:
> My .fetchmailrc says (using ***** to block out the names
> | mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" # pass message to the local MDA
> This last line worked just fine for several months, until the
> latest upgrade. The command executed is:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tbaker None 61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail
The procmail man page says about the -d flag:
-d recipient ...
This turns on explicit delivery mode, delivery will
be to the local user recipient. This, of course,
only is possible if procmail has root privileges.
I wonder if the default ntsec setting means he doesn't have the
permissions to run procmail in this mode?
There is more about the permissions requirements for explicit
delivery mode in the man page. User has to be in /etc/passwd etc.
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