Procmail error

[Frank Shute]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:22:19PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>
> > 
> > > Probably the wrong forum for this, but since it's on a freebsd system:
> > > 
> > > I have mutt installed on two other freebsd computers.  I fetch pop
> > > mail via getmail, and procmail puts things where they belong.  I just
> > > installed freebsd 7.0 on another computer with what I thought were the
> > > exact same settings for all of the mail programs involved.  When I try
> > > to retrieve mail I get this error message:
> > > 
> > > Delivery error (command procmail 3695 error (127, exec of command
> > > procmail failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0
> > > by default)))
> > > 
> > > I'm a relative newbie here and would appreciate it if someone could
> > > give me a heads up on this.
> > > 
> > > Rem
> > 
> > Are you running getmail as root?
> 
> Boy, I hope not.  And I have this entry in my aliases file: 
> 
> root:	rem
> 
> so I'm not collecting mail as root.
> 

What does your getmailrc look like?

I've got this section in there. You should have similar:

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/local/bin/procmail
user = frank


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 Frank 


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