#5644 Procmail permission

[M.T.R]

Hi,
not a bug just a question:
I cannot make procmail to write to local mailbox.
get following error message:
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail"
What is missing, permission ?
Thanks for assistance.
Cheers mike

[Jamie Cameron]

Can you post a screenshot of how you've setup Procmail in Webmin?

[M.T.R]

Hi Jamie,
here is the setup of procmailrc:

DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0 fw

• <512000
  | /usr/bin/spamc

:0

• ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
  /dev/null

:0

• ^Subject:.Undelivered Mail.Returned.to.Sender
  /var/mail/admin

The error message comes from the last entry:
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/admin"

Thanks for assistance

cheers mike

[Ilia]

I think you should check if /var/mail/admin is part of the mail group and that it has write permissions for that group.

[M.T.R]

Hi Ilia,
thanks for your reply.

Permission is 660.
This is a screenshot of the permission for /var/mail/admin

cheers mike

[Ilia]

What about home directory itself and all of its subdirectories?

[M.T.R]

var is not in home directory.
in procmail(1) they say:
Error while writing to "x"
Nonexistent subdirectory, no write permission, pipe died or disk full.

I don't know what's going on.
Just wanted to separate the

• ^Subject:.Undelivered Mail.Returned.to.Sender
  messages from all accounts and send them to server admin.

Didn't expect to be difficult like this.

Thanks for your help anyway.

cheers mike

have nice easter holidays.