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.
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