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From: Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch>
To: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: procmail diverts mail to daemon's mailbox
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:27:39AM +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:17:17PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth Bsag wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've setup a simple .procmailrc for Root:
> > 
> > 	# .procmailrc
> > 
> > 	:0
> > 	/var/mail/root
> > 
> > But all mail for root get's to /var/root/daemon.
> > 
> > What's wrong?
> > 
> > -Hanspeter
> > end of the original message
> 
>    I'm running qmail and it does not permit to deliver mail directly to
> root for security reasons: you must define a user that receive mail

Why is it a security issue for root to receive mail?


> for root, mailer-daemon and postmaster. The file .procmailrc in /root
> is not even read, because the mail is delivered to another user
> (daemon in your case).
> 
>    I don't know what MTA you're running, but maybe it has the same
> (correct) behaviour.

I'm still running sendmail.
I think /root/.procmailrc is read. But now I've noticed that
daemon is the last entry in /etc/passwd with /root as login directory.


> 
>    Try to put the following .procmailrc in the home directory of the
> user which receive mail for root (e.g. daemon):
> 
> :0
> * ^TO.*root
> /var/mail/root
> 
>    Remeber to do the following (as root):
> 
> touch /var/mail/root
> chown daemon:daemon /var/mail/root
> 

I only did the chown command and it works.

Thank you very much.

Hanspeter 


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