PBleickardt <wbleickardt(_at_)monmouth(_dot_)com> writes:
How come procmail is ignoring a .lock file?
I have in /var/spool/mail/
-rw------- 1 contact contact 3600 Aug 21 14:22 contact
-r--r--r-- 1 contact contact 1 Aug 21 14:21 contact.lock
So why can mail still come in to user contact, completely ignoring the lock
file?
Are you completely sure that procmail the one delivering the mail?
If yes, have you turned on verbose logging?
(If you have, why didn't you include it in your post?)
Philip Guenther
No, I don't have verbose on...
I figured what the problem was:
/var/spool/mail was owned by root:root
When I changed its owner to contact:contact, procmail honored the
contact.lock file.
But I really don't want /var/spool/mail to be owned by contact! And what if
I need to lock other spoolfiles. What is the solution to this problem?
Peter Bleickardt