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 4:23 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: procmailrc question
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, 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.
> > >
> > > Hope that made some sense.
> >
> > Hmm.  Well, sendmail determines each user's HOME directory from
> > /etc/passwd.  That (his HOME) is where the user's .procmailrc should
> > reside.  How does that relate to the two user worlds?
>
>
> On an HP, their home directory would be /acct.
>
> On a linux box their home directory would be /acct
>
> On an SGI their home directory would be /acct
>
> The problem is, none of those are the same files system. :(

Did you ever see my responses?  I repeat:

You can set up the "ForwardPath" option in the sendmail.cf file to give
a list of directories to search for the .forward file.  For example,
this line:

    O ForwardPath=/usr/local/etc/forwards/$u.forward:$z/.forward

If the incoming mail was for user "fred", that line would cause the
system to first look for a "/usr/local/etc/forwards/fred.forward" file
If found, it is used.  If not, it tries to find a ".forward" file in
fred's home directory.  The system defaults to:

    O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward

"$z" is filled in with the user's home directory after sendmail does a
getpwent()-style call, "$w" is filled in with the host name of the
machine running sendmail.
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