Re: [vps-mail] how did this get through?

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:14:39PM -0500, Chris Edwards wrote:
> > What kind of account is this? If this is a vps1, the defaults should
> > be fine (i.e., it should always just work unless you've locked down
> > the /var/mail directory or something like that).
> 
> Its a vps2.
> -rw-rw----  1 root          mail  20842877 Jan 27 14:18 spam

Procmail will either need to be running as root to deliver this (i.e.,
before the DROPPRIVS line in your procmailrc file) OR you'll need to
put the file in a location writable by an unprivileged user (i.e., in
each users home directory would work:

    $HOME/spam

/tmp will probably also work.

Scott
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