Hi,
I have had problems with procmail not being able to unlock some files
and thus loosing mail.
I'm using procmail v3.11pre7 1997/04/28 version in Solaris 2.5.1 environment
with Solaris mailtool.
Here is a sample from my log file, where I can see the subject of the mail
I never got:
From Aune(_dot_)Kontio(_at_)lmf(_dot_)ericsson(_dot_)se Thu Jan 29
09:45:53 1998
Subject: Koodit halytysjarjestelmaa varten
Folder: /home/antti/Mail/mbox 7482
procmail: Couldn't unlock "/home/antti/.lockmail"
procmail: Couldn't unlock "/home/antti/Mail/mbox.lock"
Here is my .forward:
"|IFS=' ' && p=/home/antti/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf-
|| exit 75 #antti"
and here is my .procmailrc:
# Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones
that
# are not.
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # You'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
:0
* ^Subject:.*Turbobricks
Turbobricks
:0
* ^X-Assistance:.*For subscription assistance, please see
http://www.SwedishBricks.net/lists/
Swedishbricks
:0
* ^From.*UnixHelp-request
Unixhelp
# Anything that has not been delivered by now will go to $DEFAULT
# using LOCKFILE=$DEFAULT$LOCKEXT
So can anyone give me a hint, why this happens and what should I do?
I'm not on the procmail mailing list, so please answer directly to me
to Antti(_dot_)Kiiski(_at_)lmf(_dot_)ericsson(_dot_)se
Thanks,
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Antti Kiiski