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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail



Andy Saxena wrote:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:

Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail).

So your situation is completely different. I don't see how you could use fetchmail to do what you are wanting to do.

What happens if you run cyrdeliver manually while logged on as the 'mail' user (assuming your exim is running as that)? You might have some kind of permissions problem. fetchmail is running as root for me, so that's might be why it works for me, but not in the context of exim for you.


Looks like there's a great deal of misunderstanding/ miscommunication
about what I am trying to achieve.

For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in
brief:
Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their
procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs,
he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder.

Well, I don't see what I'm misunderstanding.  My points were

* When one of your users sends a mail, it's going to exim. At that point, exim needs to deliver it, and fetchmail really can't (well, shouldn't) get involved - cyrdeliver, as you are doing, seems the proper thing to do. Therefore, I mentioned that my setup, where I use fetchmail, because I want to download mail from a POP account, won't work (well, isn't the best way) for you.

* Since cyrdeliver is running under exim's user (mail) for you, and either under root or the recipient's user for me, your problems may stem from permissions, and you need to see what happens if you try doing the delivery under a different username.



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