[TriLUG] More Email Problems: Postfix/Procmail Errors

[Joshua Gitlin]

Joseph,

I don't seem to have postfix running chrooted... and I think procmail 
is my LDA... and mail delivery is working most of the time, just on 
occasion it bounces messages and I can't figure out why...

-Josh

On Apr 13, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:

> 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).
>
> Joseph
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