I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101222/33fc9501/attachment-0001.sig>
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote:> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and > reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been > allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that > > MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ > > Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been working like > this only in the last 24 hours or so. >Also, since /var/mail/anne is mbox and /home/anne/Maildir/ is maildir, I need to find a way of getting the messages into the correct directory. I could clip them into separate files, but I assume that the cryptic names of files are used for indexing. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101222/8523d1ce/attachment-0001.sig>
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:> On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, >> and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had >> been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it >> that >> >> MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ >> >> Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been >> working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. >> > Also, since /var/mail/anne is mbox and /home/anne/Maildir/ is > maildir, I need to find a way of getting the messages into the > correct directory. I could clip them into separate files, but I > assume that the cryptic names of files are used for indexing.There are a few things that are likely to cause the symptoms you describe: 1. Lax permissions on ~/.procmailrc: make sure that file isn't accessible by group or world (0600 works for me). 2. Lax permissions on your $HOME. Procmail gets picky when things are group-writeable. 3. SELinux issues. Run "ausearch -m avc | grep procmail" to see if anything needs to be relabeled. /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/