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Re: qmail & procmail




On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> 	We are using qmail for our machines here. Now I could not get
> 	qmail to work with procmail to do the sorting.
> 
> 	Basically, I need to fetchmail emails from three pop3 mail
> 	servers and then use qmail to deliever them all to the root
> 	account.
> 
> 
> 	The .qmail in /root looks like this:
> 
> 	| /var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/bin/procmail root

QMAIL DOES NOT deliver to root. That is a security issue. Instead it
delivers to the ~alias/.qmail-postmaster .qmail file if you have installed
qmail from the debianized source, and .qmail-root if you have installed on
your own. But there is no way you can make qmail to deliver to a user
whose directory is owned by root.

Robert Varga


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