Walter Krohe wrote:
Forward mail sent to root to a dedicated, unpriviliged account. Yes, I forward all "root"-mail to an unpriviliged account. "root"-Account is only an example. The same problem exists with ALL other local accounts, like my "wk". Hints?
Well, are you running AMaViS ? :-) Quoting from the new BUGS file (not yet in CVS, as I'm just back from LinuxTag ...): * depending on your system, subprocess is run as the UID of the local receipient (not 'root'). Calling your local delivery program (usually procmail) then might have insufficient privileges to deliver it any further. FIX: set an "o"-flag in /etc/sendmail.cf Mlocal, P=/usr/sbin/scanmails, F=olsDFMAw5:/|@SPfhn, S=10/30, R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=scanmails -Y -a $h -d $u Hint: This usually happens on SuSE Linux >=6.0 Hint: If this still does not work, *remove* the "o" *and* the "S" flag! Please note that I'm running a different AMaViS setup (AMaViS is not called via Mlocal, but via Mamavis, which is called by an patched Rule Set 0). If it's still does not work, I'll look into my mail archive, as I did some research on that some month ago ... HTH best regards, Rainer Link -- Rainer Link | Member of Virus Help Munich (www.vhm.haitec.de) rainer@w3.to | Member of AMaViS Development Team (dev.amavis.org) rainer.w3.to | Maintainer FAQ "antivirus for Linux" (av-linux.w3.to)