Procmail can't create mailbox
Bob McClure Jr
bob at bobcatos.com
Sat Nov 29 12:51:20 UTC 2008
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:03:10PM -0500, Mark Corsi wrote:
> Not what you will want to hear, but...
>
> Use Sendmail. Older, more stable, runs 80% of all mail servers.
Well, ubiquity does not make superiority. Note that Windows runs a
similar percentage of PCs. You wouldn't suggest that I go back to
that, would you?
> Never ceases to amaze me when people always try to make a better widget than
> one that works nearly perfectly.
I barely got the hang of configuring sendmail when it was a single
daemon. When it went to two daemons, I never figured out which config
items went in which daemon's config. Postfix is much easier to figure
out, and IMHO more flexible.
Note also that I think procmail is the problem, not postfix.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 8:24 PM
> To: Red Hat Install
> Subject: Procmail can't create mailbox
>
> Okay, this is driving me nuts. Procmail can't create a mailbox for a
> new user. This has come up on at least four servers I manage - FC5,
> FC6, CentOS 5.2, and now RedHat 5.2. They are all using Postfix and
> procmail to accept and deliver mail. All but one involve
> "bootlegging" in the users by copying over the normal users' passwd,
> shadow, group, and gshadow entries, as well as their home directories
> and/or the mail spool (/var/spool/mail). In the most recent case
> (RHEL 5), the /var/spool/mail directory is stock except that I created
> an LVM device and transferred /var/spool contents to it and then
> mounted it on /var/spool. The permissions are right out of the box:
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 28 04:02 /var/spool/mail
>
> I've done a web search and found nothing useful. My solution in each
> case has been to make /var/spool/mail world writable, and, in at least
> one case, added the sticky bit, to wit:
>
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 20480 Nov 28 16:19 /var/spool/mail
>
> It works, but it's not the way it's supposed to work out of the box.
> Selinux is disabled on all machines. What am I missing?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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