[CentOS] Problem with procmail

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Jan 25 16:39:46 UTC 2012


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.


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Timothy Murphy  
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