Okay. Here is an interesting anomality.
There was no file called /var/mail/signet1 since the account had never had
mail sent to it (recently). So what I did was rename the .forward
temporarily and then sent mail to the account and then put the .forward
back. Everything works just peachy.
The reason the file was gone was that I have a system administrator that is
fanatical about deleting mail files that are 0 bytes or are 60 days old.
But everything works now, thanks for everyones help. :)
Hedley Robertson
SPC, USA
Unix System Admin, US Computer Science School
COM 706-791-6400 DSN 780-6400
robertsh(_at_)emh(_dot_)gordon(_dot_)army(_dot_)mil
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From: David W. Tamkin[SMTP:dattier(_at_)Mcs(_dot_)Net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 4:48 PM
To: Robertson, Hedley J. SPC
Cc: procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
Subject: Re: (procmail) Okay.... this should be easy
Hedley Robertson followed up,
| Well, this particular box isn't mine, so re-compiling or creating a
symlink
| won't work. I set the variables but now it bounces the message. Here
is
| the logfile:
| >From signet1(_at_)emh1(_dot_)gordon(_dot_)army(_dot_)mil Tue Aug 11
15:43:33 1998
| Subject: test
| Folder: **Bounced**
| procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/signet1"
| procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/_a1AQemh1"
| procmail: Lock failure on "/var/mail/signet1.lock"
| procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/signet1"
| >From signet1(_at_)emh1(_dot_)gordon(_dot_)army(_dot_)mil Tue Aug 11
15:48:08 1998
| Subject: test
| Folder: **Bounced**
Does the /var/mail directory exist? If so, is there a file named signet1
already in it, writable by you?