Fetchmail Complaining

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18Jul2006 23:46, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
| Fetchmail on my machine is complaining that it can't read my .procmailrc file
| in my home directory that is used for mail filtering.
| What I am getting in my fetchmail log is:
| procmail: Suspicious rcfile "/home/lmcilwain/.procmailrc"
| procmail: Couldn't read "/home/lmcilwain/.procmailrc"

It would be nicer if it said "refusing to read"...

| Nothing has changed with this file in months and all of a sudden it just
| stopped working.
| Here are the permissions on my .procmailrc file:
| -rw-r--r-- 1 lmcilwai lmcilwai 1484 18 Jul 23:34 .procmailrc

Is your home directory group or world writeable?
If so, procmail reckons someone could have replaced your .procmailrc.
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