symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Alastair Neil wrote:
>     I was hoping to avoid dedicating a whole partition to /home, so I'm
>     trying the symlink approach instead. Except procmail doesn't seem to be
>     doing the right thing...
> 
> IMO  a separate partition is a very sensible idea, it allows you to 
> upgrade and re-install the system without losing your precious data.  
> However in this case a bind mount might solve your problem:
> 
> mount -rbind /where-ever/home /home

That didn't work either...

I can execute procmail manually with a test message, and it just doesn't 
work when the /home folder is symlinked or bind/rbind mounted. (It works 
fine when the /home folder is a "normal" folder.)

No error message is given, which is odd.

- Mike