"C. R. Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>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?
This is really a procmail question. What does the .procmailrc look
like? If you're not careful, procmail won't return dmail's exit status
to qmail-command.
-Dave
