From: Cliff Sarginson (no email)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 04:44:55 EDT
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:44:09AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Steve Larsen:
> >
> > Hi, I am setting up Postfix on RedHat 7.1 and have made the recommeded cha
> > nges to main.cf and the aliases file as recommended in the HOW-TO's. I have
> > set up sendmail, but I am new to Postfix. No email is being recieved when I
> > send it via pine. The email is addressed to . The
> > mail is bounced and I receive the following message in /var/log/maillog. I
> > would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks. Steve.
> >
> > Command output: procmail: Couldn't crea
> > te "/var/spool/mail/larsen" procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool
> > /mail/larsen.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/m
> > ail/larsen" )
>
> Until the RedHat people come up with a better developed solution
> than shipping procmail as non-setuid,
>
> # chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
>
> is your way to get procmail mail delivery from postfix.
>
> Wietse
This should go in the FAQ.
SuSE from hell has the same problem.
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