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procmail cannot write to local directories
- From: "C. Porter Bassett" <porter at et dot byu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:47:30 -0700
- Subject: procmail cannot write to local directories
- Reply-to: "C. Porter Bassett" <cporter at byu dot edu>
I downloaded cygwin-compiled procmail from
http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~madokam/. Right now, I am trying to use it to
filter an existing test mailbox that has two messages in it by running
$ cat testspool |procmail
Here's my super-simple .procmailrc which should do nothing put put all
messages into ~/Mail/inbox and write its log to ~/.procmail/log:
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
SHELL=/bin/sh
VERBOSE=no
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
:0
$DEFAULT
When I try to do this, procmail gives me all kinds of odd errors. Here's
what procmail puts into stderr:
~/Mail$ cat testspool |procmail
"rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/.procmail/log
"rocmail: Skipped "
"rocmail: Skipped "
"rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
"rocmail: Skipped "
.lock"il: Lock failure on "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
"rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
I have no idea why it cannot write to /home/porter/.procmail/log or
/home/porter/Mail/inbox. I can modify both of them. I also have no idea
why it keeps saying Skipped ".
In case it helps, here's the same thing, but with VERBOSE=yes :
~/Mail$ cat testspool |procmail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:43 2001
"rocmail: Skipped "
"rocmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Assigning "DEFAULT=/home/porter/Mail
"rocmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/porter/.procmail
"logmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/porter/.procmail
"logmail: Opening "/home/porter/.procmail
"logmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/.procmail
"rocmail: Skipped "
"rocmail: Skipped "
"inboxil: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Opening "/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N._9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:51 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N,_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:59 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N+_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:07 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N%_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:15 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N.f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:23 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N,f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:31 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N+f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:39 2001
.lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
/_4N%f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
.lock"il: Lock failure on "/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Opening "/home/porter/Mail
"inboxil: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/porter"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/porter"
From <#@[]> Mon Dec 10 02:43:29 2001
Subject: Re: mutt on cygwin
Folder: /var/spool/mail/porter
80283
~/Mail$
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