Martin_MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs(_at_)natur(_dot_)cuni(_dot_)cz> writes:
I helkped someone to install procmail as a user on Sun machine, so
calles procmail form his .forward. He's using it to forward some e-mail to
a mobile via the :0c block. All his e-mail should get delivered at
the end of .procmailrc by procmail itself (i.e. they are not
explicitly saved during procmail processing the script).
However, he gets some e-mails delivered only to the mobile and not to his
local account into /var/mail/kamil. Here's one of the e-mails which he
read only via mobile.
procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/mail/kamil.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/kamil"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/kamil"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: No match on "=\?[^?]+\?[qb]\?[^?]+\?="
From aaa(_at_)bbb(_dot_)cz Mon May 21 10:56:28 2001
Subject: RE: Upozorneni
Folder: /var/mail/kamil
$ ls -lad /var/mail
drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 35840 Jun 5 16:01 /var/mail
Something is wrong with this picture: procmail will not generate the
"Bypassed locking" message if the spool is writable by group and user.
Is /var/mail local to the machine that procmail is normally run on?
Did any network 'burps' occur around the time indicated above?
The question is:
would be of help if he puts at the end of his .procmailrc
line like:
:0:
/var/mail/kamil
That cannot help and, under some circumstances, it can be worse.
The system is running sendmail and mail.local as LDA. Choosing a different
lockfile outside /var/mail is also useless I think. Why do some of his
e-mail get lost, when as LDA is in his case called procmail? Procmail
3.15.1, compiled by me on this machine. I think only pop3 daemon is
touching the mailfile in the meantime-as far as I can image something.
If the POP daemon isn't configured to use the same (kernel) locking
methods as procmail, or if none of those methods work between the machine
that procmail is run on the the machine that the POP daemon is run on,
then he can lose (and apparently has lost) email.
Philip Guenther
_______________________________________________
procmail mailing list
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail