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From: Chris Rose <offline@shaw.ca>
To: sean@tcob1.net
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maildrop doesn't filter or log filters
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 01:58:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB376B2.5090007@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n2m-g.uwuh9av6a.fsf@tcob1.net>

Speaking from experience (sorry, should have posted my found fix on this 
a while ago), maildrop may not log that itself, but in the 
/var/log/maillog file you can find its output to stderr that indicated a 
permissions problem.  Once i found this, all of it fell into place.

sean@tcob1.net wrote:
> "James Turnbull" <james@lovedthanlost.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>sean@tcob1.net wrote:
>>
>>>On 26.04.2003 09:19:10, Chris Rose wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Here's how i have things:  I'm using postfix as a local MTA, and it's
>>>>calling maildrop with
>>>>mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop
>>>>
>>>>I have only one user that receives mail on my system, and that user
>>>>account has/d a ~/.mailfilter file.  The problem is, whenever that
>>>>file exists, no mail whatsoever makes it into my Maildir.  I've
>>>>tested this - i send a message to myself, and i receive nothing as
>>>>long as there's a mailfilter file existing.  As soon as i rename it,
>>>>i'm fine.
>>>>
>>>
>>>What are the permissions on the .mailfilter file, they must be 0600.
>>>I had problems like this and this caused problems similar
>>
>>Look in your mail logs / syslogs.  Postfix / Maildrop is usualy pretty good
>>about telling you what the problem is.
>>
> 
> 
> I cannot comment about Postfix as I never used it but Maildrop will not write to a log file if there is a permissions problem.
> 
> Sean
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-03  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-01  8:09 Maildrop doesn't filter or log filters sean
2003-05-01 23:14 ` James Turnbull
2003-05-02 21:35   ` sean
2003-05-03  7:58     ` Chris Rose [this message]
2003-05-03  9:37       ` sean
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-26 15:19 Chris Rose

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