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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