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Chicken
12-31-2000, 03:05 AM
Now I know this was an attempt by a spammer to relay mail, but I've never seen this one before, and maybe y'all know what it means?

554 <mail_from@servertest.com>... Local configuration error
procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/sites/home/users/admin/.procmailrc"
procmail: Couldn't read "/home/sites/home/users/admin/.procmailrc"

I know what procmail does, but I never noticed if it was there or errrr... I dunno.. I am too tired to think.

mrote
01-02-2001, 09:27 AM
This is from the procmail man page. Looks like it might just be a simple permissions problem on the .procmailrc file itself.

"Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or
the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile($HOME/.procmailrc) and either it was group writable or the directory that contained it was group writable (the rcfile was not used)."

Chicken
01-02-2001, 09:32 AM
Originally posted by mrote
This is from the procmail man page. Looks like it might just be a simple permissions problem on the .procmailrc file itself.

"Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root..."

Well, maybe this is why it was 'suspicious', as it was a spam attempt and whoever sent the email (trying to pass it through the server) wasn't the owner of the file, nor did their address match.

Anyway, I got it back so I suppose all is well. (If I didn't get it back then it would be a bad thing right?).