Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 41971
procmail not called as LDA from sendmail
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:23 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 Description of problem: Under Red Hat 4.x, 5.x and 6.x, sendmail automatically used procmail as an LDA, and ~/.procmail was consulted for all locally delivered mail. After upgrading my box to 7.1, this no longer appears the be the case. Note that my home directory is NFS mounted from another machine, so I can guarantee that my .procmailrc didn't change when upgrading. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a .procmailrc to do something other than deliver to $MAIL 2.Send yourself some mail 3.Watch it get delivered to $MAIL Actual Results: Mail gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/tet, rather than being loaded into one of my mh folders using rcvstore called from ~/.procmailrc Additional info: The procmail recipes definitely work -- I've been using them for years under previous versions of RHL.
That would be a sendmail issue.
procmail is used for local delivery, so you must have some other problems on your host. Florian La Roche
This is *NOT* resolved. It is 100% reproducible on an out of the box RH7.1 install. I get the same behaviour on 3 separate boxes. If there are problems on the host, it is because they exist in the default install.
Please check your sendmail.cf for the "Mlocal" mailer and also your permisssions on your email config files, since sendmail as well as procmail have more security checks added. Default configuration is ok, this must have something todo with your local setup. If not, please give more information. Thanks for your report, Florian La Roche