[TriLUG] Procmail error in postfix

Douglas Ward dward at nccumc.org
Wed Jul 19 15:25:16 EDT 2006


I thought of that and found the following in /var/spool/mail:

-rw-rw----  1 rhenderson mail 129M Jul 19 15:16 rhenderson

Isn't this enough permissions (mandriva defaults)?  What else would the
server have to do besides read and write?

On 7/19/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:54:37PM -0400, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > New postfix server that I rolled out last week.  Copied a large mailbox
> 150
> > mb to the server and now when I try to send the user a new message this
> is
> > returned:
> >
> > <rhenderson at xyz.org <rhenderson at clergymail.nccumc.org>>: can't create
> user
> > output file. Command
> >   output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/rhenderson"
>
> Ownership and permissions?
>
>
> B-)
>
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