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On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, > >> and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had > >> been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it > >> that > >> > >> MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ > >> > >> Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been > >> working like this only in the last 24 hours or so. > > > > Also, since /var/mail/anne is mbox and /home/anne/Maildir/ is > > maildir, I need to find a way of getting the messages into the > > correct directory. I could clip them into separate files, but I > > assume that the cryptic names of files are used for indexing. > > There are a few things that are likely to cause the symptoms you > describe: > > 1. Lax permissions on ~/.procmailrc: make sure that file isn't > accessible by group or world (0600 works for me). > It was 0700 - I've changed it to 0600. > 2. Lax permissions on your $HOME. Procmail gets picky when > things are group-writeable. > The directory itself is not group- or world-writable. There are one or two files inside that are group-writable, but most aren't. I could change those, I suppose, but they are nothing related to the mail system. > 3. SELinux issues. Run "ausearch -m avc | grep procmail" to > see if anything needs to be relabeled. > I'm not running SELinux > /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be "Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail" which of course is correct. The only messages affected are thos which should be in my Inbox, having failed to match any recipe. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org |
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