Hi, I have just switched to Maildir, and I have noticed something. Even though it works properly, I have noticed that a file named
/var/mail/user
with 0 bytes length is still created. Is this normal?
I use sendmail+procmail+dovecot. I have also tried the combined procmail+deliver approach with the same results. I also use a global /etc/procmailrc.
Thank you
Greg Pearson wrote:
I have just switched to Maildir, and I have noticed something. Even though it works properly, I have noticed that a file named
/var/mail/user
with 0 bytes length is still created. Is this normal?
I use sendmail+procmail+dovecot. I have also tried the combined procmail+deliver approach with the same results. I also use a global /etc/procmailrc.
I had a similar issue and I think it was a Procmail thing.
It stopped being a problem for me anyway because I changed some config in my MTA (Exim4) for another reason which happened to mean that Procmail was no longer invoked in most cases.
But I think it may be fixable in the Procmail space.
What is in your /etc/procmailrc ?
Bill
It stopped being a problem for me anyway because I changed some config in my MTA (Exim4) for another reason which happened to mean that Procmail was no longer invoked in most cases.
But I think it may be fixable in the Procmail space.
What is in your /etc/procmailrc ?
Quite simple at the moment.
LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log" DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/" MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/"
I also notice some permission issues, no matter if I use a global procmailrc or one in user's homedir. It complains not being able to write Dovecot's log file. In practice, I had to force the following permissions:
666 /var/log/dovecot.log 666 /var/log/procmail.log
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