This post to debian-user concerns the same problem which I described
in a recent post to the getmail list. This posting provides greater
detail.
System:
i386
Debian 8 (Jessie, xfce)
getmail 4.46.0-1
maildrop 2.7.1-3
I am attempting to re-create a mailsystem which was running
successfully several years ago under Debian Etch. My goal is for
getmail to download messages from a POP3 server (using
SimplePOP3Retriever) and pass each message to maildrop. Running in
delivery mode, maildrop is to categorize the message and deposit it
in the corresponding maildir.
THE PROBLEM: getmail sees the messages but cannot pass them to
maildrop. The getmail log reports an error, but nothing is written to
the maildrop log. The log files are extant; they are located in:
~/mail/logs/getmail ~/mail/logs/maildrop.
The error message is:
----------------------------
2015-08-01 04:07:47 Delivery error (command maildrop 3808 error (75,
/usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.))
2015-08-01 04:07:47 msg 2/1373 (16327 bytes) msgid 000007da53c4329f
from <SRS0+e50bb6a0873f79ec=B6=cs.foobar.com=bou...@mx25.net>
2015-08-01 04:07:47 2 messages (47056 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped
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The set of maildirs is extant; they were created with the command:
mkdir -vp /path/new-maildir-name/{cur,new,tmp}
As a test, I changed the [destination] from
----------------------------
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/maildrop
unixfrom = true
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to
----------------------------
type = Maildir
path = /home/rh/maildir-test/
----------------------------
With this change, message delivery takes place without error.
File permissions on getmail and maildrop are as left by synaptic:
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39558 Apr 22 2014 /usr/bin/getmail
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 219164 Jan 14 2015 /usr/bin/maildrop
The maildrop configuration file is ~/.mailfilter . File permissions
on .mailfilter are:
----------------------------
-rw------- 1 rh rh 14729 Aug 1 05:38 .mailfilter
The getmail script is being run by a normal user rh. Adding the user rh
to the mail group did not solve the problem.
RH
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