Turn off Procmail?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Nov 27 18:29:09 GMT 2002


MailScanner is not involved with the delivery of mail at all, so this isn't
directly relevant to MailScanner.
I suggest you check that /usr/bin isn't group-writable.

At 17:37 27/11/2002, you wrote:
>I have MailScanner running on Redhat 8 using Sendmail. I'm getting a lot
>of these messages in the maillog:
>Warning: program /usr/bin/procmail unsafe: Group writable directory
>
>Should I turn off procmail? Should I "dnl" the following lines and m4
>sendmail then restart MailScanner?
>define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
>FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
>MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>James

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