[Esd-l] Can't write to spambox

[Paul Thomas]

Hello again,

I found a solution to my problem listed below, but
I'm not sure I understand it or maybe I have 
something misconfigured.

Turns out, home directories on my system that have
a .forward file like:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user"

have no trouble with spambox being written to. But home
directories with no .forward produce the spambox error I was
having trouble with.

I am using Sendmail with Procmail as the local delivery agent
and everything else works fine. Using /etc/procmailrc for
global things works great and using .procmailrc in home
directoris works great without a .forward.

Any comments as to why I might need a .forward file for the 
bulkmailer-trap.procmail to be able to write to a spambox
are welcomed.

Thanks again!

--Paul 



On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On my Linux machine I run the sanitizer stuff successfully
> from /etc/procmailrc. I also have:
> 
> INCLUDERC=/etc/procmail/bulkmailer-trap.procmail
> 
> in there also. Some of my user directories the bulkmailer-trap
> works ok and puts spam in a spambox file in the user's
> home directory. Other of my user directories cause the
> following error:
> 
> procmail: Error while writing to "spambox"
> 
> The permissions on these directories are all the same.
> 
> Any comments appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Paul T,
> 
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