tlug: More Procmail setup

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

  Hi,

  I may have found the answer to my recent question in the
procmail.mini-faq:

  "If you seem never to be able to execute Procmail from your .forward
file, it could be that    your site is using smrsh, the Sendmail
Restricted Shell, for mail delivery. In this case, you    should get a
bounce message saying something like "Address <foo@example.com> is unsafe for 
mailing to programs" or "Cannot use <metacharacter> in command". Your
admin has to    explicitly tell smrsh that Procmail is a program you
are allowed to call up from your    .forward (if you are -- you might
not be, since there are security risks involved; users    can basically
run any program they wish from within Procmail, thereby invalidating
the    whole idea with smrsh. Look for a compile-time fix in an
upcoming version of Procmail, though. "

  I haven't had time to follow up this lead yet, but just wanted to
send this out while I'm still on line.

  Cheers,  Dennis

Dennis McMurchy, 
Sointula, B.C. / Tojinmachi, Fukuoka
Canada           Japan


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