Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 18Jul2006 23:46, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Fetchmail on my machine is complaining that it can't read my .procmailrc file
| in my home directory that is used for mail filtering.
| What I am getting in my fetchmail log is:
| procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/lmcilwain/.procmailrc"
| procmail: Couldn't read "/home/lmcilwain/.procmailrc"
It would be nicer if it said "refusing to read"...
| Nothing has changed with this file in months and all of a sudden it just
| stopped working.
| Here are the permissions on my .procmailrc file:
| -rw-r--r-- 1 lmcilwai lmcilwai 1484 18 Jul 23:34 .procmailrc
Is your home directory group or world writeable?
No my home directory is not group or world writeable. I do notices that
my user and group ownerships seems to be messed up.
My username to my machine is lmcilwain but as you can see from above the
ownerships are showing lmcilwai. I don't have a user "lmcilwai"
If so, procmail reckons someone could have replaced your .procmailrc.
I have also tried replacing this file with a backup that I had from the
14th and also tried changing the permissions on the file to make it
world writeable but no luck. I get the same error.
