Fetchmail Complaining

[jdow]

From: "Cameron Simpson" <cs at zip.com.au>

> 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.

It also seems world or group readable is not likely to be acceptable.
Set it to -rw------.

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