Re: [vps-mail] Procmail rule help

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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