Fwd: Re: [nzlug] wrong user/group on mail in imap maildir

[Matt]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:36:08 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, September 1, 2007 6:45 pm, Matt wrote:
> > I was trying to cut postfix out of the loop to see if that's the culprit.
> >
> > Given that it does the same thing with and without postfix delivering,
> > it's
> > got to be something else.  Is there any way to trace the ownership of the
> > mail as it passes through the chain?
>
> what are the permissions and ownership of the procmail binary? Mine is:
>
> nick at www-rout ~ $ ls -l `which procmail`
> -rwsr-sr-x  1 root root 74432 Sep  8  2003 /usr/bin/procmail
>
> the s's are something to do with setuid or setguid - which a bit of
> googling seems to think is needed for procmail.
>
> =

Thanks for the suggestion.  I fixed it by moving my procmailrc from /etc to 
~/.  Bloody odd, because I had the exact same setup in gentoo, and it worked 
just fine with procmailrc in /etc.  Oh well, that'll teach me for fiddling 
with a box with 400 odd days of uptime.

Thanks for your help anyway.

-- 
Regards

Matt