Procmail can't create mailbox

[Mark Corsi]

Not what you will want to hear, but...

Use Sendmail. Older, more stable, runs 80% of all mail servers.

Never ceases to amaze me when people always try to make a better widget than
one that works nearly perfectly.



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 8:24 PM
To: Red Hat Install
Subject: Procmail can't create mailbox

Okay, this is driving me nuts.  Procmail can't create a mailbox for a
new user.  This has come up on at least four servers I manage - FC5,
FC6, CentOS 5.2, and now RedHat 5.2.  They are all using Postfix and
procmail to accept and deliver mail.  All but one involve
"bootlegging" in the users by copying over the normal users' passwd,
shadow, group, and gshadow entries, as well as their home directories
and/or the mail spool (/var/spool/mail).  In the most recent case
(RHEL 5), the /var/spool/mail directory is stock except that I created
an LVM device and transferred /var/spool contents to it and then
mounted it on /var/spool.  The permissions are right out of the box:

drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 28 04:02 /var/spool/mail

I've done a web search and found nothing useful.  My solution in each
case has been to make /var/spool/mail world writable, and, in at least
one case, added the sticky bit, to wit:

drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 20480 Nov 28 16:19 /var/spool/mail

It works, but it's not the way it's supposed to work out of the box.
Selinux is disabled on all machines.  What am I missing?

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided
hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it
should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.
1 Peter 3:3-4 (NIV)

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