Procmail can't create mailbox

[Mark Corsi]

One suggestion, rather than using permissions straight out of box. Try
setting the permissions to 777 (temporarily) to see if it is a permission
based issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:51 AM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Procmail can't create mailbox

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.
bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government
will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)

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