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

[Lovell M. <lov...@gm...>]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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?)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 92452 Jul 12  2006 /usr/bin/procmail
>
> Check the permissions of /var/mail and /var/mail/user2.
user1
-rw-rw---- 1 user1 mail 77465038 Apr  2 14:22 /var/mail/user1

user2
-rw-r--r-- 1 user2 mail 0 Apr  1 18:36 /var/mail/user2 (I had to  
create this file by hand (touch user2) chown user2 / chgrp mail and  
that was it for this one) in the comparison I can see that this might  
be an issue.

> Use: ls -ldb /some/thing
>
> If that doesn't help, check with the procmail mailing lists or replace
> procmail by maildrop.