symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Oct 11 22:06:01 UTC 2007


Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> 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.

Examine /var/log/maillog.

Post the output of 'ls -ld $HOME', and /etc/procmailrc and 
$HOME/.procmailrc.




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