You have not given us enough information. What rcfile tries to
write to the file? What recipe? If the rcfile is /etc/procmailrc,
that could be your problem, depending on what user owns the
process that wants to write, what the group is, etc. Oh, and
you don't have CACLS or something goofy like that on your system,
do you?
My system is setup as explained here
http://www.yourhowto.org/content/view/65/9/
I use ~/.procmailrc files
------------SOF------------
LOGFILE="$HOME/procmail.log"
PPRIVS=yes
:0:
* ^From:(_dot_)*(_at_)cathedral\(_dot_)qld\(_dot_)edu\(_dot_)au
$DEFAULT
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$HOME/mail/Junk
:0
* ^Subject: \[spam\]
$HOME/mail/Junk
------------EOF------------
[root(_at_)mail ~]# ls /home/CATHEDRAL/pma/.procmailrc -lsa
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 pma Domain Users 204 May 31 10:16
/home/CATHEDRAL/pma/.procmailrc
From the procmail man page:
If /var/mail/$LOGNAME is a bogus mailbox (i.e., does not belong to
the
recipient, is unwritable, is a symbolic link or is a hard link),
proc-
mail will upon startup try to rename it into a file starting with
`BO-
GUS.$LOGNAME.' and ending in an inode-sequence-code. If this turns
out
to be impossible, ORGMAIL will have no initial value, and hence
will
inhibit delivery without a proper rcfile.
So that pretty well answers your question about "what is bogus?" I think.
Do you have the 'BOGUS.$LOGNAME' files appearing?
Okay, well they are not hard or soft links, they are owned my the right
people and have the right permissions ...
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