I'm setting up a debian mail server with mailboxes in another machine exported to the mail server as a samba share (all the mailboxes are under one folder which I export). The mail server has exim setup up, and all incoming mail is piped to procmail. Each user has a procmailrc file.
The problem I'm having is that procmail fails to write mail into the mailboxes, and I suspect it has to do with them being in a samba share. This portion of a procmail log shows the error I get: procmail: Match on "^To:.*" procmail: Locking "mbox/.lock" procmail: Forced unlock denied on "mbox/.lock" procmail: [17502] Sat Jun 25 13:36:29 2005 procmail: Locking "mbox/.lock" procmail: Lock failure on "mbox/.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=mbox/new/1119720981.17502_2.mail" procmail: Notified comsat: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/axolx/Maildir/mbox/new/1119720981.17502_2.mail" Eventually the message gets written into the mailbox, but the folder of the mailbox is left with many empty files with filenames starting with "_". Because the procmail log reported a locking problem, the first thing I did is change my mailboxes from mbox to Maildir format because I had read that maildirs don't need to be locked and are ideal for NFS/Samba setups like mine. However, I still get the locking problem (the log above is from after I changed to Maildir format). 1) Should procmail be trying to lock files when all my mailboxes are in Maildir format? If not, what can I do to stop that? 2) Is this a permissions problem? I went as far as tweaking my smb.conf file so that every file created by the mail server in the mailboxes share has 777 permissions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Martin -- Linux is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it's friends are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
