* On 02/06/06 15:44 -0700, Mark Nienberg wrote:
| I'm using procmail as the local delivery agent for Maildir style
| mailboxes. I discovered that I was able to send mail to other users but
| was unable to send mail to myself. Examples from verbose procmail log:
|
| **** Successful message to another user ****
| procmail: [24589] Fri Jun 2 15:03:34 2006
| procmail: Assigning
| "PATH=/home/david/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
| procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC"
| procmail: Opening "/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC"
| procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
| procmail: Notified comsat: "david@0:/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC"
| From mark.nienberg@tippingmar.com Fri Jun 2 15:03:34 2006
| Subject: test to other user
| Folder: /home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC
|
|
| **** Failed message to myself ****
| procmail: [24596] Fri Jun 2 15:05:13 2006
| procmail: Assigning
| "PATH=/home/mark/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
|
| procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file "/home/mark/Maildir/new/msg.A"
|
| procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/mark"
| procmail: Opening "/var/mail/mark"
| procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
| procmail: Notified comsat: "mark@686:/var/mail/mark"
| From mark.nienberg@tippingmar.com Fri Jun 2 15:05:13 2006
| Subject: test to self
| Folder: /var/mail/mark
|
|
| Anyway, I changed dovecot's lock_method from the default fcntl to flock
| and the problem disappeared. I'll add this to the wiki unless someone
| points out an error in my method.
This is not a problem with dovecot. It's a procmail issue.
Do you realize that this could be a problem in your .procmailrc?
The mail is being delivered to /var/mail/mark as opposed to
/home/mark/Maildir/new/ ... just check your .procmailrc env settings, I
think.
-Wash
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