Bug 117034
| Summary: | strange error message Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/pat" | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Patrice Dumas <patpertusus> |
| Component: | procmail | Assignee: | Martin Stransky <stransky> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-01-06 11:53:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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/var/spool/mail should have permission drwxrwxr-x. [pat@localhost pat]$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 fév 16 23:59 /var/spool/mail/ Is this still a problem? Yes. I have updated with yum, now I have procmail-3.22-14 fetchmail-6.2.5-5 and still the same problem. This issue occurs because procmail can't create default mailbox at /var/spool/mail/pat. FC use procmail without S_ISUID, so you need create default mailbox (/var/spool/mail/pat) or set rights of /var/spool/mail/ to drwxrwxrwx or set S_ISUID for /usr/bin/procmail. I think this is really a bug, as there is no reason why procmail should try to create the default mailbox /var/spool/mail/pat with a setup like mine. Or maybe there is a reason? In my setup I explicitely define my maildir to be something else than /var/spool/mail/pat: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox Ok, I'll check it. /var/mail/$LOGNAME is $ORGMAIL environment variable used by procmail (path to system mailbox). It can be overridden, you have to set $ORGMAIL and use -p and -m command line arguments for procmail. I tried to set ORGMAIL to nothing in my .procmailrc, but it doesn't
prevent procmail from trying to create /var/mail/dumas.
It doesn't change if I set it in the environment.
I cannot use -p, as I allready have -d on the command line. Indeed I
call procmail from fetchmail:
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Y -d %T"
procmail dies with an error if I try to set -p with -d.
Anyway it is documented, from the man page:
/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
system mailbox; both the system mailbox and the
immediate directory it is in will be created
every time procmail starts and either one is not
present
Maybe this is a procmail "feature". I think that it should be possible
to prevent procmail from trying to mess with the system mail directory
when in pure user delivery mode more easily, but it is not a real
problem. Anyway I think it should not be closed as NOTABUG but WONTFIX
or UPSTREAM. Not a big deal.
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Description of problem: I have a simple mail setup with fetchmail and procmail. procmail says that it cannot create a /var/spool/mail/pat (pat is the user login), but it seems to me that it shouldn't try to make anything in that file. Maybe it tries to make a lockfile in that directory ? It is possible that the directories or files don't have the right permissions. (Mail is drwx------) Here is my files: .fetchmailrc -rw-------: poll imap.free.fr with proto imap user 'pertusus' there with password '.....' is pat here mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Y -d %T" .procmailrc -rw-rw-r--: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox #LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail-log VERBOSE=off PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/general.rc # INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/other.rc # add as many INCLUDERC's as you like # end of .procmailrc :0: * ^TO_fedora-devel-list fedora-devel-list :0: * ^TO_fedora-test-list fedora-test-list Here is the problem: I call fetchmail [pat@localhost pat]$ fetchmail -d0 fetchmail: 4 messages (3 seen) for pertusus at imap.free.fr. fetchmail: skipping message pertusus.fr:1 not flushed fetchmail: skipping message pertusus.fr:2 not flushed fetchmail: skipping message pertusus.fr:3 not flushed fetchmail: reading message pertusus.fr:4 of 4 (2817 header octets) ..fetchmail: (421 body octets) .procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/pat" fetchmail: flushed See the error message 'procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/pat"' The mail is delivered to the right directory. Here is what is appended to my .procmail/log (showing everything is right). From pat Fri Feb 27 17:35:42 2004 Subject: Where does Download Manager save files? Folder: fedora-test-list Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procmail-3.22-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get mail with fetchmail redirecting to procmail and no /var/spool/mail/user 2. 3. Actual Results: everything was right, except that procmail said procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/pat" Expected Results: no such error message Additional info: