Procmail Lockfile
Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock :0: * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions The permissions on my Mail and Lists directory are set to drwx-- Any help to resolve this is appreciated. TIA Gardner Bell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Lockfile
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock :0: * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions You want the receipe to store emails in /home/you/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions? So the receipe has to be: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lists/FreeBSD-Questions Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Lockfile
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27 pm, Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock :0: * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions You want the receipe to store emails in /home/you/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions? So the receipe has to be: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lists/FreeBSD-Questions I use: * ^List-Id:.*freebsd-questions.freebsd.org so that mail from other fbsd lists aren't mixed up in the wrong folders, and so I can separate CC responses. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Lockfile
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:56:21PM -0500, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock :0: * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions The permissions on my Mail and Lists directory are set to drwx-- Any help to resolve this is appreciated. TIA Gardner Bell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would be a me too reply. I have similar setup as the one you have and I notice the failure of procmail acquiring lock whenever there are too many messages (more than 5k) in my freebsd-questions mail folder (mbox format). I'm also subscribed to freebsd-current, freebsd-stable and a host of other lists, but it only happens to me so far on freebsd-questions (highest volume list). The only work around is to keep the number of messages hovering below 5k or so. I suspect this is an obscure bug with procmail handling high volume mboxes. Maybe using mail folder instead of mbox will help, but I have not tried this. -- Hong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail Lockfile
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800 Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27 pm, Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Gardner Bell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock procmail: Error while writing to ~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock :0: * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions You want the receipe to store emails in /home/you/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions? So the receipe has to be: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lists/FreeBSD-Questions I use: * ^List-Id:.*freebsd-questions.freebsd.org so that mail from other fbsd lists aren't mixed up in the wrong folders, and so I can separate CC responses. - jt Both recipies have worked for me, thanks for the help Gardner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
