I am using procmail v3.22 on RH7.2. I recently switched from having an
individual .procmailrc in each $HOME directory to one in
/etc/procmailrc. I invoke procmail from postfix with the mailbox
command '/usr/bin/procmail -m /etc/procmailrc'. Within procmailrc, I am
using Email Sanitizer and lastly Spamassassin. I check the log file
that procmail is writing to (in my $HOME directory) and keep seeing:
Lock failure on /var/spool/mail/michael.lock
I have not seen this yet for other users, but that's because I'm trying
to get the bugs worked out with one userid first.
I set VERBOSE=YES in /etc/procmailrc and copied what I thought was the
relevant section (below). I'm hoping that someone can tell me what is
going on - or that what I'm seeing is inconsequential.
The permissions on the /var/spool/mail directory is:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Oct 1 14:09 /var/spool/mail
The last part of procmail -v output is:
Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
It may be writable by your primary group
Your system mailbox: /var/spool/mail/michael
procmail: Assigning "DROPPRIVS=yes"
procmail: Assuming identity of the recipient, VERBOSE=off
procmail: Match on "< 256000"
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamassassin,-a"
procmail: [23292] Tue Oct 1 14:37:14 2002
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/michael.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to
"/var/spool/mail/_8rF.atem9.minnie.localdomain"
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/michael.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/michael"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/michael"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
From michael(_at_)prismbiz(_dot_)com Tue Oct 1 14:37:07 2002
Subject: Test Procmail with VERBOSE=YES
Folder: /var/spool/mail/michael
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Mike McCandless
michael(_at_)prismbiz(_dot_)com
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