Greetings,
Using qmail 1.02 on debian slink. Qmail was compiled and installed
fromthe debian source package.
Debian uses procmail, and furthermore we use UW's imapd with all
mailboxes in mbx format. Thus deliveries are handed to procmail, which
then hands it over to dmail for delivery in the user's mbx-format INBOX.
Due to a stupid error on my part, the filesystem containing the
mailboxes was mounted read-only for most of last night. When I came in
this morning, after fighting off users with a baseball bat, I found lots
of messages like the following in my syslogs:
Aug 19 06:32:37 quark qmail: 935069557.167442 new msg 299477
Aug 19 06:32:37 quark qmail: 935069557.167671 info msg 299477: bytes
2961 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 6227 uid 71
Aug 19 06:32:37 quark qmail: 935069557.193555 starting delivery 409: msg
299477 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 19 06:32:37 quark qmail: 935069557.193703 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark dmail[6233]: delivering to cro+INBOX
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark dmail[6233]: Verifying safe delivery to
/home/cro/INBOX
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark dmail[6233]: mbx appending to #driver.mbx/INBOX
(file /home/cro/INBOX)
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark dmail[6233]: Can't open append mailbox: Read-only
file system
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark dmail[6233]: message delivery failed to
/home/cro/INBOX
Aug 19 06:32:38 quark qmail: 935069558.423727 delivery 409: success:
procmail:_Error_while_writing_to_"/home/cro/.procmail.from"/did_0+0+1/Can't_open_append_mailbox:_Read-only_file_system/message_delivery_failed_to_/home/cro/INBOX/
That last line is what made me have a heart attack. Qmail thought the
delivery was successful, which means the message actually got lost.
Now when I researched setting things up this way I had the impression
that dmail would return errors to procmail, which would return errors to
qmail. What happened?
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