I have installed the new procmail v3.13.1 on our new mail server
running Solaris 2.7. It configured itself as follows:
Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl(), lockf()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
I have tested it extensively and found no problems concerning my
.procmailrc!
Now in general service for our users as local mailer under sendmail
8.9.3 I find the following when I do a `ps':
1566 ? S 0:00 procmail -f Herve(_dot_)Martin(_at_)imag(_dot_)fr -Y -a
-d hameur
1917 ? S 0:00 procmail -f hameur -Y -a -d hameur
2875 ? S 0:00 procmail -f Herve(_dot_)Martin(_at_)imag(_dot_)fr -Y -a
-d hameur
3155 ? S 0:00 procmail -f sobek(_at_)irit(_dot_)fr -Y -a -d piza
3897 ? S 0:00 procmail -f owner-dbworld(_at_)cs(_dot_)wisc(_dot_)edu
-Y -a -d hameur
4180 ? S 0:00 procmail -f Herve(_dot_)Martin(_at_)imag(_dot_)fr -Y -a
-d hameur
4674 ? S 0:00 procmail -f
root(_at_)bus(_dot_)edu(_dot_)ups-tlse(_dot_)fr -Y -a -d piza
4712 ? S 0:00 procmail -f MAILER-DAEMON -Y -a -d piza
4719 ? S 0:00 procmail -f owner-dbworld(_at_)cs(_dot_)wisc(_dot_)edu
-Y -a -d hameur
4901 ? S 0:00 procmail -f Herve(_dot_)Martin(_at_)imag(_dot_)fr -Y -a
-d hameur
4926 ? S 0:00 procmail -f owner-dbworld(_at_)cs(_dot_)wisc(_dot_)edu
-Y -a -d hameur
5021 ? S 0:00 procmail -f Pascal(_dot_)Fernandez(_at_)irit(_dot_)fr
-Y -a -d durou
6138 ? S 0:00 procmail -f owner-dbworld(_at_)cs(_dot_)wisc(_dot_)edu
-Y -a -d hameur
6392 ? S 0:00 procmail -f sobek(_at_)irit(_dot_)fr -Y -a -d herzig
6427 ? S 0:00 procmail -f marcos(_at_)inf(_dot_)ufpr(_dot_)br -Y -a
-d herzig
All these users have a .lock file on their main mailbox! Is this
normal? When I interrogate these procmail's with `truss' I get:
fcntl(8,F_SETLKW,0x...) (sleeping)
What is going on? When I kill an above process, then the .lock file
disappears and the mail becomes "deferred".
Sendmail's flags to our local procmail mailer are the default one's
from sendmail 8.9.3:
##### @(#)local_procmail.m4 8.11 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998 #####
##### @(#)local.m4 8.30 (Berkeley) 6/30/1998 #####
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
T=X-Unix,
A=sh -c $u
Also, people are complaining that it is taking time to send an
e-mail. May this be related to above problem?
Any suggestions folks?
Thanks folks,
--Ralph
P.S. Normally I am subscribed to procmail-dev, but I am not receiving
anything. Is it that quiet?