Ubuntu Procmail / Fetchmail Issues
December 17, 2007

For some reason Ubuntu ships with the SUID bit set on procmail. This causes all mail to be delivered by procmail as though it were root, which is not that helpful to users trying to check their mail. I have no idea why I have to do this, but on every Ubuntu system I setup I have to run...

... in order to actually get mail incoming. Symptoms are that users will continually get new mail notifications without any actual mail being visible to them. Administrators can see that some new mail files are in users' directory, but are owned by root instead of the user in question. Any thoughts on why, oh Intertron?