RE: [vps-mail] Procmail rule help

["Jim Smith" <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, this is what is wrong. Make sure that the file
> /var/mail/clientmailbox exists and is writable by that user.

Yeah, sure Scott, that's pretty obvious. I mean, I couldn't possibly
overlooked something that simple, right? <harrumph!>  

Oops...

Durn! A tiny little typo. The user name looked fine! <blush>. Ok. Now that
I've spent all this time troubleshooting this and wasted other folks' time
helping, I've got it right now and will crawl away for a while and pound my
head on the desk until common sense comes back to me. Sorry to all for the
wild goose chase. Neeeeever mind.

Regards,

Jim Smith 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Wiersdorf
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:19 PM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Procmail rule help
> 
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:58:32AM -0400, Jim Smith wrote:
> > > (3.)
> > > Log files wellsfargo.log and wellsfargo2&3.log files have 
> > > nothing in them.
> > > Log file wellsfargo4.log has this:
> > > procmail: Lock failure on "/var/mail/clientmailbox.lock"
> > > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/clientmailbox"
> > > procmail: Lock failure on "/var/mail/clientmailbox.lock"
> > > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/clientmailbox"
> > > 
> > > Why would the lock not work? Is that what is wrong?
> 
> Yes, this is what is wrong. Make sure that the file
> /var/mail/clientmailbox exists and is writable by that user. The
> ownership of that file should be username:mail and permissions 0600
> is enough.
> 
> Also, make sure that instead of writing directly to the spool file,
> put $DEFAULT instead; this will make the procmail recipe portable
> across users and mailbox locations (should you ever move an account
> to Signature, for example).
> 
>   :0:
>   * H ?? ^From:.*wellsfargo\.com
>   $DEFAULT
> 
> This ought to be quite enough. If this recipe doesn't work, try this
> one with some logging:
> 
>   LOGFILE=wellsfargo1.log
>   VERBOSE=yes
>   :0:
>   * H ?? ^From:.*wellsfargo\.com
>   $DEFAULT
>   VERBOSE=no
> 
> and send us the contents of wellsfargo1.log as well as mail headers
> as you've done.
> 
> Scott
> -- 
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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