Postfix and procmail

Mike Garfias mike at garfias.org
Tue Sep 12 13:17:58 MST 2006


Sounds like you're running postfix in a chroot jail.
Are you running Deb/Ubuntu by any chance?  If so, the default install  
as postifx jailed.

edit /etc/postfix/master.cf and change the chroot col to 'n'.

The other option is to link /usr/bin/procmail to /var/spool/postfix/ 
user/bin/procmail.


On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Nathan England wrote:

>
> I miss typed. It is
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>
>
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:45, John Seth wrote:
>> I'm not sure which version of PostFix you're using, but perhaps it
>> should read "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail", not  
>> "mail_command" ?
>>
>> Check your main.cf, or if you keep backups of the original config  
>> file,
>> check that.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> ~  Tony E
>>
>> Nathan England wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have been using sendmail with procmail and all has worked well. I
>>> decided to play with postfix a little. I have it working, mostly,  
>>> except
>>> procmail. Watching my logs everytime it processess a message it says
>>> /usr/bin/procmail cannot be found.
>>>
>>> Postfix is accessing other files in /usr/bin so I know its path is
>>> ok, /usr/bin/procmail is the legitimate file so that is ok.
>>>
>>> Any other reason why it wouldn't like procmail?
>>>
>>> mail_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>>>
>>> nathan
>>
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