Re: procmailrc question

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure 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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