[TriLUG] More Email Problems: Postfix/Procmail Errors

[Tanner Lovelace]

Joshua Gitlin said the following on 4/12/04 9:07 PM:

> <jnet at localhost.tumaz.com>: can't create user output file. Command output:
>     procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jnet"
> Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.tumaz.com
> Arrival-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:59:34 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; jnet at localhost.tumaz.com
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; can't create user output file. Command output:
>     procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jnet"
> 
> 
> jnet is my user, /var/spool/mail/jnet exists and is writable. I have not 
> been able to find any sort of errors in /var/log/mail.info nor 
> /var/log.messages... I don't know what's causing procmail to fail... 
> anyone have any ideas?

Several thoughts:

1) Are you running out of disk space?
2) Are you using locks in procmail and there's a problem cropping up
    with that (or the lack thereof)?
3) Do you use POP3 and delete your e-mail from the server?  I've seen
    a user mailbox get moved to <mailboxname>.<someextension> while
    it's doing that. and if procmail tries to deliver then, and if it
    doesn't have the right permissions or isn't run by postfix with
    the right permissions it might not be able to create a new mailbox
    file.

Good luck, and let us know what it turns out to be.

Cheers,
Tanner

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