[H-GEN] Procmail with users

[David Duffy]

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On 2003-09-25, David Duffy wrote:

>>I *have* read the man pages this time. :-)
>>I've gotten Procmail to do what I want but...
>>
>>I've been using it for a while on two user accounts just fine but
>>then I copied the .forward and .procmailrc files into the other
>>users home directories, edited them & changed the ownerships.
>>Procmail does not seem to run for those users.
>>

Greg Black wrote:

>This is the kind of problem report that makes help desk people
>want to slash their wrists.  What does "does not seem to run"
>mean?
>

The rules I put in .procmailrc did not work for some users but
the same .procmailrc rules did work for myself and one other user.

>Does the mail just get delivered as though there was no procmail
>file?  Does the mail bounce?  Does the mail disappear down a
>black hole?  What do the logs show?  How do the logs differ from
>those of a successful installation?
>

The mail was delivered as normal. ie. Not action taken by procmail.
Sorry, I should have been more specific.

>Have you *checked* the editing you did?  Have you sat down with
>somebody else watching and explained exactly what you did?
>(This is to get the "aha!" moment when you suddenly realise that
>you'd been reading what you wanted to read, not what was really
>there.)
>

I compared the good/bad files and they looked identical. I just went and 
copied
the good one over the bad ones and now it all works. Buggered if I know what
was wrong with the old ones! On screen they were the same. ????

>Have you checked the access times on the various files to be
>sure they are being read?  Have you replaced bits of the system
>with little shell scripts that tell you how they are being
>called?  Do you really want me to go on with seventy further
>steps that you could take?
>

As you can tell, I'm not a proficient Linux user/administrator.
I'm quite often out of my depth on many things - Linux included.
You may want to avoid me in future to keep your sanity. :-)

>Cheers, Greg (who has not used procmail for about a trillion
>	      years and can't recall all the details off the top
>	      of his aging head)
>

Sorry to cause you so much grief. I'll go crawl back under that rock now.
Nah, I have a thick skin. Just ask Rob.B or Mark.S  :-)
David...

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