Sounds like a lock conflict between procmail and the
mail reader. I found the program mailtool locks the
mail file as long as it (the program) is open; even
if no changes are being made.
I had to compile procmail with only dot locking
enabled.
I have not had any corruption of mailboxes.
good luck
-Marshal-
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Sylvain Ferrand wrote:
-->Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:30:30 +0200
-->From: Sylvain Ferrand <sylvain(_at_)cmapx(_dot_)polytechnique(_dot_)fr>
-->To: procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
-->Subject: Procmail and sendmail are forking but never die
-->
-->Hello,
-->
-->I use Procmail for local mail delivery, i've got the folowing line in my
sendmail.cf:
-->Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=DFMSPhnu9, S=11/31, R=21/31,
--> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
--> A=procmail -Y -m $h $f $u
-->
-->Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
--> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
--> A=procmail -Y -t -a $h -d $u
-->
-->It usualy work fine but sometimes for some user's mailbox, sendmail and
procmail are forking and never die.
-->It's possible the mailbox are corrupted, but I don't now how?! They are
alway a user.lock in the mailbox directory and it appear back after removing.
-->A solution is to remove the mailbox and to create a blanck one, but, it's
not a good solution :(
-->
-->An idea?
-->regards,
-->
-->Sylvain Ferrand
-->
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