I am using procmail-fetchmail-postfix-mutt on FC4. I find some mails are
staying put in /var/spool/mail/sharukh.
For example if I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail goes to
/var/spool/mail/sharukh instead of going to $HOME/mail/INBOX. In fact all
mail bound for $HOME/mail/INBOX gets stuck in /var/spool/mail/sharukh.
This is FC4.
INBOX is around 51 mb in size, but this should not be a problem as I've
had it go up to 89 mb previously. I usually move all mail to an archive
once a year. But see below :(
This is the relevant bit from procmail.log :
--------------------------------------------
procmail: Locking "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX.lock"
procmail: [5085] Thu Aug 4 22:26:16 2005
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Opening "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Error while writing to "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Truncated file to former size
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/sharukh"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/sharukh"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/mail/sharukh"
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 4 22:26:15 2005
Subject: testing
Folder: /var/mail/sharukh 805
procmail: Unlocking "/home/sharukh/.lockmail"
----------------------------------------------
What I did was mv INBOX INBOX.old and sent myself another mail. This time
it got thru to INBOX with this in the procmail.log:
-----------------------------------------------
procmail: Locking "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Opening "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 4 22:31:56 2005
Subject: testing 2
Folder: /home/sharukh/mail/INBOX 829
procmail: Unlocking "/home/sharukh/.lockmail"
-------------------------------------------------
So what is the problem here ? There is enough disc space:
-----------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 9.5G 3.3G 5.7G 37% /
/dev/shm 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 9.7G 471M 8.7G 6% /home
-----------------------
regards and thanks,
Sharukh.
--
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer.
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would
be a good idea to put wheels on luggage ?
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