procmailrc question

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:50 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: procmailrc question
>>
>>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:41:27PM -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>
>>>Ok.. good question here.
>>>
>>>If I don't want an /etc/.procmailrc, and I have users that have an
>>>invalid $HOME path on the sendmail server, how can I support
> 
> .procmailrc
> 
>>>files for those users as procmail only appears to look at
>>>$HOME/.procmailrc.
>>
>>Not true.  Procmail looks at /etc/procmailrc (not /etc/.procmailrc)
>>and then at $HOME/.procmailrc.  Note also that the latter must be
>>owned by the user and be writable only by that user (644 perms).
>>
>>I'm curious.  What users have an invalid $HOME, and why?
> 
> 
> In short, I have a mess here.
> 
> We have multiple user account file systems.  The one for our sendmail
> server is say /acct, the one for our HP machines would be /acct.hp.  But
> our sendmail server also mounts that so mail can be handled properly.
> 
> The problem is, I can't create user directories in /acct, even if it's
> just to put a .procmailrc link to their /acct.hp directory.
> 
> So I need procmail to be able to use /acct/username/.procmailrc
> (otherwise known as $HOME) and /acct.hp/username/.procmailrc.

See my earlier response.  The sendmail.cf line to use would be

     O ForwardPath=/acct/$u/.procmailrc:/acct.hp/$u/.procmailrc:\
	$z/.procmailrc

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