Dan Doucette (Dano) wrote:
> I'm getting an error message in just one of my user's procmail logs. The
> error is; 'procmail: Error while writing to "caughtspam"'
That is really a procmail question not a spamassassin question.
Does your syslog and/or maillog say anything interesting? Usually
/var/log/syslog and /var/log/mail.log but configurable in the
/etc/syslogd.conf file so it could be anywhere depending upon who set
up your system. It could even be logged to a central system.
> I've set the permissions properly, I'm sure of that.
Are you sure? As the saying goes, if you have to ask... If you post
your permissions (ls -ld) then people will crosscheck you and biasing
errors will be avoided.
> Here is my setup
> K6 2 450 MHz
> 512 MB RAM
Not important. (Looks like a reasonable system. One of my mail hubs
is identical.)
> Red Hat 8.0
> Sendmail
Maybe important. Does Sendmail or Red Hat by default set a ulimit for
the maximum size of a file? If so then this will be inherited by
procmail and with a folder such as a spam folder it is possible to
exceed reasonable limits very quickly. I don't recall Sendmail doing
that by default but I know that stock Postfix sets a 51200KiB limit by
default and this is one of the FAQs regarding that. A common Postfix
configuration overrides the default and sets 'mailbox_size_limit = 0'
to disable that limit.
How big is the caughtspam folder in particular? If you move it out of
the way and start with a fresh empty file does it start working? If
so then I suspect a 'ulimit' is restricting the file size. In that
case you might contemplate using either Maildir/ style folders or
MH/. style folders which store messages one per file.
> .procmailrc's for each user
> .spamassassin directory for each user with user_prefs file
>
> Here is what all of my .procmailrc files look like;
>
> :0fw
> | spamassassin
>
> :0e
> {
> EXITCODE=$?
> }
>
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
All looks fine to my eyes.
> I hope that is enough info. Any help would be very much appreciated.
If you take a mail message and pipe it to procmail does it work or
does it fail?
Have you implemented filesystem quotas? Is the user exceeding a set
quota limit?
Bob
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