Sorry to keep bugging you guys with the questions...
I'm having another email issue, this time on a fresh install of Mandrake 10 on an older Dell box. Every now and then, certan emails don't get through to me. I can't tell why, or what causes it, but certain emails bounce, and the bounce message read:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jnet" Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.tumaz.com Arrival-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:59:34 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jnet"
jnet is my user, /var/spool/mail/jnet exists and is writable. I have not been able to find any sort of errors in /var/log/mail.info nor /var/log.messages... I don't know what's causing procmail to fail... anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Josh
Postfix generally is installed by default to run in a chroot environment. Thus it may be looking for a different file that doesn't exist if postfix is configured to do local delivery, i.e. not /var/spool/mail/jnet , but $CHROOT/var/spool/mail/jnet. That's why by default on RHL, postfix uses procmail for delivery. Investigate along these lines:
Switch postfix to not run chrooted in master.cf. If mail delivery works, investigate using procmail to act as the Local Delivery Agent (LDA).
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