On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:06:40PM +0200, Renato wrote: > Hi, I'm new to postfix and MTAs in general; I'd like to set it up > for local delivery only on my Archlinux box. I've followed the > instructions on the archwiki [1] and my configuration files are > exactly as explained there, except that I have *not* set neither > home_mailbox nor mail_spool_directory, but instead I've setted > > mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail > > since I use procmail to sort my mail.
That's fine, if you want to use procmail. However, you should have consulted procmail documentation and enabled procmail logging to solve this procmail (non-Postfix) issue. You might also consider leaving out mailbox_command and using a ~/.forward file to invoke procmail. *You* use procmail, but does it have to be system-wide? > "mail -s test renato" though silently fails (renato is my username) > - i.e. mail never gets passed to procmail. In /var/log/mail.log I > see something like: > > Oct 17 15:15:26 localhost postfix/pickup[472]: B3322200238: uid=1000 > from=<renato> > Oct 17 15:15:26 localhost postfix/cleanup[2246]: B3322200238: > message-id=<20121017131526.B3322200238@localhost> > Oct 17 15:15:26 localhost postfix/qmgr[473]: B3322200238: > from=<renato@localhost>, size=669, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 17 15:15:26 localhost postfix/local[2248]: B3322200238: > to=<renato@localhost>, orig_to=<renato>, relay=local, delay=3.6, > delays=3.5/0/0/0.05, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) This is what you get when $mailbox_command fails for an unspecified reason (not one of the defined sysexits.h errors.) > So I guessed the error is in local; I've substitued "local" with > "local -v" in master.cf and I get a much more detailed log: > > http://pastebin.com/Lf95k9mG > > which unfortunately doesn't tell me much. I'm sure your verbose log, which I did not review, will show an attempt to invoke your mailbox_command. But again, Postfix logging only helps with Postfix problems. It does not know what's wrong in procmail. > Could someone more expert than me point me in the right direction? -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
