[TriLUG] More Email Problems: Postfix/Procmail Errors

Joshua Gitlin josh at glowfilms.com
Tue Apr 13 10:53:33 EDT 2004


No, I definitely have enough disk space. Over 4 GB available. I do not 
know, however, if I'm using locks or not. I do know that this system 
was recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.3-4mdk from a 2.4 kernel. Could 
that be causing a problem somewhere?


On Apr 12, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> 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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