Recent changes to 5644: Procmail permission

#5644 Procmail permission

M.T.R — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:13:58 -0000

var is not in home directory.
in procmail(1) they say:
Error while writing to "x"
Nonexistent subdirectory, no write permission, pipe died or disk full.

I don't know what's going on.
Just wanted to separate the
* ^Subject:.Undelivered Mail.Returned.to.Sender
messages from all accounts and send them to server admin.

Didn't expect to be difficult like this.

Thanks for your help anyway.

cheers mike

have nice easter holidays.

#5644 Procmail permission

Ilia Ross — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:59:50 -0000

What about home directory itself and all of its subdirectories?

#5644 Procmail permission

M.T.R — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:49:20 -0000

Hi Ilia,
thanks for your reply.

This is a screenshot of the permission for /var/mail/admin

cheers mike

#5644 Procmail permission

Ilia Ross — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:12:01 -0000

I think you should check if /var/mail/admin is part of the mail group and that it has write permissions for that group.

#5644 Procmail permission

M.T.R — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:19:59 -0000

Hi Jamie,
here is the setup of procmailrc:

DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0 fw
* <512000
| /usr/bin/spamc

:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null

:0
* ^Subject:.Undelivered Mail.Returned.to.Sender
/var/mail/admin

The error message comes from the last entry:
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/admin"

Thanks for assistance

cheers mike

#5644 Procmail permission

Jamie Cameron — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:08:13 -0000

Can you post a screenshot of how you've setup Procmail in Webmin?

Procmail permission

M.T.R — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:15:09 -0000

Hi,
not a bug just a question:
I cannot make procmail to write to local mailbox.
get following error message:
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail"
What is missing, permission ?
Thanks for assistance.
Cheers mike