On 30-Nov-2006, at 13:49, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:04:49 -0800 Professional Software Engineering
<PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org> wrote:
At 11:52 2006-11-29 +0200, Marcel Grandemange wrote:
I only need procmail for a single user. Don't want it handling
everyone
elses mail.
There are a lot of systems configured with procmail as LDA. Not
withstanding your current issues getting it running, procmail is a
reliable
LDA.
...
If this is the case, I can't begin to fathom why postfix wouldn't be
issuing a bounce for the messages. In fact, if procmail were
executing and
bailing out, there should be an exit code...
Depending on his *nix distribution PostFix may already *BE*
configured as
the LDA. It is for my Debian installs.
Well, I recently had a problem which has happened at least once in
the past. There was some issue with procmail that prevented it from
logging anything, and seemingly prevented it from launching (though
that is a guess).
Consequently, for several hours, all email processed by procmail
simply vanished.
Nothing logged to /var/log/procmail (where /etc/procmail normally
logs) and nothing logged to any user's log file, so no way to know
exactly what happened, other that the 8 hours of mail that simply
vanished from sight.
Now, overall I've been using procmail since 1996 or so with very few
problems. When there have been problems though, they are rather
catastrophic.
In fact, I'm wondering if there isn't same way to run procmail as a
local pipe for postfix instead of as a real LDA, since if something
int he pipe fails postfix seems to do the 'right thing'.
--
It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley,
closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
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