Postfix and procmail

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Tue Sep 12 13:26:15 MST 2006


I'm running Fedora Core 5

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:17, you wrote:
> 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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