Hi all. I just finished installing Postfix (after uninstalling sendmail)
and configuring it for my home network. I am new to Linux. I am running on
RH 7.2 (2.4.7-10). Postfix 1.1.3-1, and procmail 3.21.
I am getting the following message (see below) when sending mail to all but
one recipient. I am not sure what, if anything is different about that one
user, other than it was first sent mail before I tried to move to Maildir/
style mailboxes which incidentally does not appear to be working. As I send
mail to the successful user (greg) I was expecting a Maildir directory in my
home directory with a file for each subsequent message. That is not
happening. They are still being created in a single file in the
/var/spool/mail directory. I want to have the Maildir format because I
intend to install Courier IMAP next, and it requires Maildir format.
Anyway, frankly I suspect this is more of a Postfix problem than it is a
procmail problem, but thought I would pose the question as well here, in
case anyone can provide some guidance.
Finally, I thought I would offer up that perhaps incorrectly I performed the
rpm installation of Postfix as root. The README files (I guess I forgot to
read them) suggest the creation of a Postfix user. Is this a real problem
now, should I reinstall, or can I correct the permissions. Perhaps this is
related.
Thanks very much.
---------- cut returned mail message, also logged in maillog --------------
This is the Postfix program at host mail.csofc.com.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.
The Postfix program
<kellie(_at_)csofc(_dot_)com>: can't create user output file. Command output:
procmail:
Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/kellie" procmail: Lock failure on
"/var/spool/mail/kellie.lock" procmail: Error while writing to
"/var/spool/mail/kellie"
--------------------------cut of procmail -v
------------------------------------------------------
[greg(_at_)gateway greg]$ procmail -v
procmail v3.21 2001/06/29
Copyright (c) 1990-1999, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl>
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther
<guenther(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com>
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Locking strategies: dotlocking, lockf()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
It may be writable by your primary group
Your system mailbox: /var/spool/mail/greg
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