Re: INCLUDERC in .procmailrc

[Marcelo Medici <gaucho@ericps.crc.uiuc.edu>]

Bob,
Thank you for your reply. I tried the nesting solution and the same
problem occurred. It took a while for me to find the problem, but I found
that a MAILDIR statement within one of the included file has the effect of
changing the pwd. Procmail was therefore unable to find the included files
since the directory had changed.
In the end, it does appear that using multiple INCLUDERC statements is
possible within one rc file.

Thank you.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Bob T. Kat wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:32:10PM -0500, Marcelo Medici wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am seeing a problem in using include statements in a .procmailrc file.
> >
> > My .procmailrc is very simple:
> >
> > # Procmailrc
> > LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log
> > TIMEOUT=60
> > INCLUDERC=.procmail.deny
> > INCLUDERC=.procmail.allow
> > INCLUDERC=.procmail.spamassassin
> >
> > However when processing this, I receive the following error in my logfile
> >
> > procmail: Couldn't read ".procmail.allow"
> > procmail: Couldn't read ".procmail.spamassassin"
> >
> > It seems that as soon as procmail processes an include file with recipes,
> > it refuses to process the next. If I comment out the line calling
> > .procmail.deny, the .procmail.allow file is processed, but the
> > .procmail.spamassassin is not.
> >
> > I don't see any limitations in the procmailrc man page stating that there
> > is a limit of only one INCLUDERC statement in a procmail recipe. Does
> > anyone have a comment on what could cause this?
>
>
> just a thought but since INCLUDERC is an evironment setting you can probably
> only use it once (like saying LOGFILE=bob.log then LOGFILE=bob2.log), though
> it does say nesting is permitted
>
> taken from the man page:
>  INCLUDERC   Names  an  rcfile (relative to the current directory) which
>              will be included here as if it were  part  of  the  current
>              rcfile.   Nesting  is permitted and only limited by systems
>              resources (memory and file descriptors).  As no checking is
>              done  on  the permissions or ownership of the rcfile, users
>              of INCLUDERC should make sure that only trusted users  have
>              write  access to the included rcfile or the directory it is
>              in.  Command line assignments to INCLUDERC have no  effect.
>
> <-------------------------------->
>
> so from that i would have to guess that you would put the
> INCLUDERC=.procmail.allow in the .procmail.deny script
> and the INCLUDERC=.procmail.spamassassin in the allow script
>
> hope this helps
>
>
> Bob T. Kat
>
>
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