[oclug]Postfix and Maildir

[Ian Wormsbecker]

On January 30, 2003 11:41 am, Collin McCrank wrote:
> I do have the line mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail and it's
> uncommented.
>
> Here is a message that gets bounced back to me when I remove my user's
> file from /var/spool/mail
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <cmccrank at linux-planet.net>: can't create user output file. Command output:
>     procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/cmccrank"

Just a guess here. Who owns the /var/spool/mail directory and what are the 
permissions. I notice the line default_privs = nobody. Does this mean postfix 
will try to write the mail file using the user nobody? 

It also looks like procmail is having a problem. Perhaps procmail isn't in the 
correct path or something?



Ian





>
> And here is my output from postconf -n
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> command_directory = /usr/sbin
> config_directory = /etc/postfix
> daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
> debug_peer_level = 2
> default_privs = nobody
> fast_flush_domains = $relay_domains
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
> inet_interfaces = all
> mail_owner = postfix
> mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN
> mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
> manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
> mydestination = linux-planet.net, smtp.linux-planet.net,
> www.linux-planet.net myhostname = linux-planet.net
> mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.1
> newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> readme_directory = /etc/postfix/README_FILES
> sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.7/samples
> sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
> setgid_group = postdrop
>
>
> Thanks
> Collin
>
> Carl St-Jacques wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Do you have this line in your main.cf file: mail_spool_directory =
> >/var/spool/mail?
> >
> >I supposed you did a postfix reload after you changed the main.cf file. If
> >you still have problem you'll need to show some log or send the output of
> >postconf -n.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >Carl
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I installed Postfix from an rpm and it only wants to deliver to
> >>/var/spool/mail/username.  Even though in the main.cf file I added the
> >>line for Maildir style support using home_mailbox = Maildir/
> >>
> >>It still insists on delivering to /var/spool/mail.  I'm running uw-imap.
> >>
> >>
> >>Does anyone know what could be the problem?  I used 2md to convert my
> >>mailbox to Maildir format and that worked fine.  Could it be that the
> >>rpm of Postfix or uw-imap somehow didn't include Maildir support?
> >>
> >>Will I have to re-install using a tar distro and somehow compile in
> >>Maildir support?
> >>
> >>-Collin
> >>
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