procmail, day 2

[Gerry Doris]

I don't believe procmail cares where you put the log files as long as you
can write to the directory.  Change the path of the lock files to a
directory where the user running procmail can write.

> does sendmail guarantee that only one procmail will be active at any
> time when there is a /etc/procmailrc? This locking issue is definitely
> complicating my job... I have taken out all ":" in my /etc/procmailrc
> except the msgid.cache you created in the sample.

I believe the example assumes you are running as root.  That's why they
use /var/log.  A normal user can't write to /var/log for obvious reasons.
Each user may have his/her own .procmailrc file in their own directory.
When that user starts prormail it uses that user's .procmailrc file.  Just
make sure that whatever user is calling procmail it can write to the
specified directories.


Gerry

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