[techtalk] pine and virtual domains

[JamesA.Sutherland]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:50:07 +0200, you wrote:

>Akkana and James, thanks for your advice!
>
>Well this user seems to be truly paranoid. He doesn't have *any* 
>email client on his local computer, and checks all his mail via 
>another server in pine.

Phew! Paranoia like that suggests he works for the FBI, investigating
all their unsolved alien-related cases :-)

>He's rapidly getting to be somewhat of an annoyance, since now he 
>wants to set up forwarding with a subject prefix with a procmail 
>script. (why didn't he tell me he wanted the mail to be forwarded 
>inthe first place?? grrrr) Now...I am not happy with this, for 
>various reasons (the primarily one is,this server hosts several sites 
>and 70+ users, and he's not even a primary account holder - basically 
>just a buddy of one of the primary account holders) and I've already 
>spent way too much time on complying to his requests. I can easily 
>set up forwarding for him with aliases, but I'm trying to find an 
>argument for not using procmail scripts. Are there any I could throw, 
>er,   communicate to him (something about security would be nice) 
>that would be a good argument for not setting up a procmail script 
>just for him?

If procmail is already installed and he has a proper shell account on
the server (which is the impression I get), he should be able to set
it up himself - so I don't think there are really any security issues
you could raise. I suggest you tell him "Yes, you can have a procmail
script, but you'll have to set it up yourself" - after all, this is
really a configuration issue, and surely your hosting doesn't include
fixing the user's HTML errors etc?!


James.