[CentOS] Re: Random procmail filter failures.

[Steven Haigh]

Hi All (again).

I am still at a loss on this one. Does anyone have any pointers for me?

On 05/01/2008, at 4:10 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm seeing a random issue with my procmail filters (only on email  
> from this list) where once every so often, it will fail to filter a  
> message. I am sorting by the to/cc email address, and this rule  
> works on 99.9% of posts, however every now and again, I see  
> something like this happen:
>
> From centos-bounces at centos.org  Sat Jan  5 01:57:28 2008
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?
>  Folder: /home/netwiz/Maildir/.CentOS-Discussion/new/ 
> msg.br32             4852
> procmail: Match on "(To|Cc).*centos at centos.org*"
> procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file "/home/netwiz/ 
> Maildir/.CentOS-Discussion/new/msg.A"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/netwiz/Maildir/new/ 
> 1199459595.7065_1.zeus.crc.id.au"
> procmail: Notified comsat: "netwiz at 0:/home/netwiz/Maildir/new/ 
> 1199459595.7065_1.zeus.crc.id.au"
>
> Most posts work perfectly, and show up as such:
>
> From centos-bounces at centos.org  Sat Jan  5 02:13:15 2008
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration
>  Folder: /home/netwiz/Maildir/new/ 
> 1199459595.7065_1.zeus.crc.id.au        5944
> procmail: Match on "(To|Cc).*centos at centos.org*"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/netwiz/Maildir/.CentOS- 
> Discussion/new/msg.gr32"
> procmail: Opening "/home/netwiz/Maildir/.CentOS-Discussion/new/ 
> msg.gr32"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: Notified comsat: "netwiz at 0:/home/netwiz/Maildir/.CentOS- 
> Discussion/new/msg.gr32"
>
> File and directory permissions on my Maildir directory etc are fine,  
> and I'm at a loss to explain this. I've run fsck over the disk with  
> no sign of errors.
>
> Has anyone stumbled upon this before?


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Steven Haigh

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