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RE: Procmail and postfix errors

2005-10-29 21:34:12


-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Schneider
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:10 PM
[...]
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
procmail: Locking ".lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/sendmail,-oi,cajun2112(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com"
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/sendmail: Permission denied
procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/sbin/sendmail"


You likely have a recipe something like the following:

:0:
/usr/bin/sendmail -oi cajun2112(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com

This makes procmail think it should try to deliver to
the *mailbox* file named /usr/bin/sendmail

This will work better:

:0:
| /usr/bin/sendmail -oi cajun2112(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com

Aguably, the lock (trailing colon) isn't needed.


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