[CentOS] The case of the missing mail
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 22 17:19:43 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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).
>
It was 0700 - I've changed it to 0600.
> 2. Lax permissions on your $HOME. Procmail gets picky when
> things are group-writeable.
>
The directory itself is not group- or world-writable. There are one or two
files inside that are group-writable, but most aren't. I could change those,
I suppose, but they are nothing related to the mail system.
> 3. SELinux issues. Run "ausearch -m avc | grep procmail" to
> see if anything needs to be relabeled.
>
I'm not running SELinux
> /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well.
There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be "Delivered to
command /usr.bin/procmail" which of course is correct. The only messages
affected are thos which should be in my Inbox, having failed to match any
recipe.
Anne
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