F9: .procmailrc ignored

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon May 19 23:22:59 UTC 2008


Brian Mury wrote:
> I am using fetchmail to download mail from POP3 servers, and sendmail to
> deliver it to the local mailbox. I have a $HOME/.procmailrc file that
> pipes everything through spamassassin.
> 
> This has worked fine for the last several Fedora releases.
> 
> This is not working for me with F9. Fetchmail and sendmail are
> downloading email and delivering it to my local mailbox, but it is not
> getting piped through procmail. I don't see any relevant messages
> in /var/log/maillog either:
> 
> May 19 13:50:45 localhost fetchmail[4472]: awakened by User defined signal 1
> May 19 13:50:45 localhost fetchmail[4472]: awakened at Mon 19 May 2008 01:50:45 PM PDT
> May 19 13:50:48 localhost fetchmail[4472]: 1 message for brianmury at pop.gmail.com (517 octets).
> May 19 13:50:49 localhost sendmail[4671]: m4JKomKF004671: from=<brianmury at gmail.com>, size=688, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<222486a60805191350l4ab25d47obe783c5fbfc58231 at mail.gmail.com>, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> May 19 13:50:49 localhost fetchmail[4472]: reading message brianmury at gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 1 (517 octets) flushed
> May 19 13:50:49 localhost sendmail[4672]: m4JKomKF004671: to=<bmury at localhost>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30890, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> May 19 13:50:53 localhost fetchmail[4472]: sleeping at Mon 19 May 2008 01:50:53 PM PDT for 300 seconds
> 
> 
> I tried creating a .forward to send stuff through /usr/bin/procmail, and
> I get this:
> 
> May 19 13:53:29 localhost fetchmail[4472]: awakened at Mon 19 May 2008 01:53:29 PM PDT
> May 19 13:53:32 localhost fetchmail[4472]: 1 message for brianmury at pop.gmail.com (521 octets).
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4690]: m4JKrXMZ004690: from=<brianmury at gmail.com>, size=692, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<222486a60805191353v4333a5f4yea6c0d35175f11fb at mail.gmail.com>, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost fetchmail[4472]: reading message brianmury at gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 1 (521 octets) flushed
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost smrsh: uid 500: attempt to use "procmail" (stat failed)
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690: SYSERR(root): putbody: write error: Broken pipe
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   0: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=1884, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   1: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=1884, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   2: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=0/15, ino=1884, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   3: fl=0x2, mode=140777: SOCK localhost->[[UNIX: /dev/log]]
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   5: fl=0x0, mode=100600: dev=253/0, ino=991907, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=9
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   6: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136811, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   7: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136811, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   8: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136808, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:   9: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136808, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:  10: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136807, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:  11: fl=0x8000, mode=100640: dev=253/0, ino=6136807, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=12288
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:  12: fl=0x1, mode=100600: dev=253/0, ino=991932, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=1211
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:  13: fl=0x1, mode=10600: FIFO: dev=0/6, ino=60730, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=0
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690:  14: fl=0x0, mode=10600: FIFO: dev=0/6, ino=60731, nlink=1, u/gid=0/51, size=0
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690: MCI at 0x0: NULL
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690: MCI at 0x0: NULL
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690: to=|/usr/bin/procmail, ctladdr=<bmury at localhost> (500/500), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30894, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
> May 19 13:53:33 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004690: m4JKrXMZ004691: DSN: Service unavailable
> May 19 13:53:34 localhost sendmail[4691]: m4JKrXMZ004691: to=<brianmury at gmail.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=31918, relay=shawmail.gv.shawcable.net [24.71.223.43], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok.)
> May 19 13:53:37 localhost fetchmail[4472]: sleeping at Mon 19 May 2008 01:53:37 PM PDT for 300 seconds
> 
> Can anyone throw some light on this? I've exhausted my limited sendmail
> knowledge and am stuck.

Dumb question: is procmail installed?

If so, have you tried this with selinux in permissive mode?

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