Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail/Multiple Local Users/Multiple Email Accounts

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Lovell Mcilwain schrieb:

> I was able to get fetchmail started but I have now run into another  
> problem.  When I checked my log after running in detailed verbose, I  
> get the following error:
> [lmcilwain@Firewall ~]$ tail -f fetchmail.log
> procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/lmcilwain"
> procmail: [17952] Sun Apr  1 17:54:43 2007
> procmail: Assigning "LOGNAME=procmail.log"
> procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
> procmail: Opening "procmail.log"
> 
> So now I am not able to get anything into my inbox and everything  
> haults.  I have not been able to find a way to get it to write to / 
> var/mail/user2.

Looks like a procmail issue.

Check the permissions of the procmail executable (is it setuid root?)

Check the permissions of /var/mail and /var/mail/user2.

Use: ls -ldb /some/thing

If that doesn't help, check with the procmail mailing lists or replace
procmail by maildrop.