Re: From root to users

On 31 May 2014, at 03:15 , Arthur Dent <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have also tried:
> | /bin/procmail -d mark	
> | /usr/bin/procmail -d mark	
> | /bin/formail -s procmail -d mark
> | /bin/formail -s /usr/bin/procmail -d mark
> | /bin/formail -s  | /usr/bin/procmail -d mark 
> | /usr/bin/formail -s /usr/bin/procmail -d mark
> | /bin/formail -s /usr/bin/procmail -d mark
> | /bin/formail -s /bin/procmail -d mark
> 
> All with the same result.
> 
> Anything else I can try?
> 
> Thanks for the help so far...

Hmm. I have no idea. What is logged other than the COMSAT delivery?

Do you see anything in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/all or var/log/messages that is related?

grep procmail /var/log/*

when it's throttling?

I doubt this is a procmail issue, something on your system is preventing procmail from working.

I wonder if there's a DROPPRIV issue though.

DROPPRIVS only has a single flag, 'yes', so I'm not sure how you can tell it what user to use in your specific case since all the mail is technically owned by root, and as I understand it a DROPPRIVS=yes only drops the privs to the actual owner of the mail.

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