Procmail can't create mailbox

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:05:55AM -0500, Mark Corsi wrote:
> Sorry Bob. My response was a bit 'tongue-in-cheek'. Late at night and one
> too many beers.

Not a problem.  Been there, done that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob McClure Jr
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:51 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Procmail can't create mailbox
> 
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:03:10PM -0500, Mark Corsi wrote:
> > Not what you will want to hear, but...
> > 
> > Use Sendmail. Older, more stable, runs 80% of all mail servers.
> 
> Well, ubiquity does not make superiority.  Note that Windows runs a
> similar percentage of PCs.  You wouldn't suggest that I go back to
> that, would you?
> 
> > Never ceases to amaze me when people always try to make a better widget
> than
> > one that works nearly perfectly.
> 
> I barely got the hang of configuring sendmail when it was a single
> daemon.  When it went to two daemons, I never figured out which config
> items went in which daemon's config.  Postfix is much easier to figure
> out, and IMHO more flexible.
> 
> Note also that I think procmail is the problem, not postfix.
> 
> > -----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.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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