Les Mikesell wrote: >> I'm trying to setup email on a new server running CentOS-6.2 (x86_64), >> but for some reason email is going to /var/spool/mail/ >> despite the fact that my .procmailrc starts >> and I have > [...] >> ------------------------------- >> MAILER(smtp)dnl >> MAILER(procmail)dnl >> ------------------------------- >> in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc . >> (I have run /etc/mail/make and restarted sendmail .) > > Let's start at the beginning. Sendmail is not the default mailer for > 6.x. Are you sure you are using it? Thanks for your response. Sendmail is certainly running: ------------------------------- [tim at grover ~]$ ps aux | grep mail tim 1984 0.0 0.0 103300 812 pts/1 S+ 16:16 0:00 grep mail root 31117 0.0 0.0 90836 2608 ? Ss 02:46 0:01 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 31126 0.0 0.0 76048 2012 ? Ss 02:46 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue [tim at grover ~]$ ------------------------------- Also it appears from /var/log/maillog that spamassassin is vetting mail, which seems to suggest that procmail is being used. I should have said that selinux is running in permissive mode. One possible mistake I made was to copy ~/Maildir on my old server to ~/Maildir on the new server. I notice that this leaves the name of the old server helen on the files in the new Maildir, eg 1326686655.13860_1.helen.gayleard.com:2,S in the new ~/Maildir/cur . I wonder if I should have copied them in some other way? But I don't see how this would affect where the mail is going? I guess I need to trace in some way what procmail is doing. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin