Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:37:06 -0800 From: Lin Jianfong <ljfong@hong.homeunix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Lockfile Message-ID: <20041221223706.GA66072@hong> In-Reply-To: <20041221205621.GA31153@gardnerbell.ca> References: <20041221205621.GA31153@gardnerbell.ca>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:56:21PM -0500, Gardner Bell wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to setup procmail to deliver my mail but I continuously receive the following errors in my log file. > procmail: Locking ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions.lock > procmail: Error while writing to "~/Mail/Lists/_YmHxxx.gardnerbell.ca" > I do receive my mail but it always ends up in the default location that I have specified. > > In my .procmailrc file I have the following environment variables: > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/received > PMDIR=$HOME/.procmailrc > LISTFOLDER=$HOME/Mail/Lists > SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail > > This is the recipe that fails to acquire a lock > :0: > * ^(From|To).*freebsd.org > ~/Mail/Lists/FreeBSD-Questions > > The permissions on my Mail and Lists directory are set to drwx------ > Any help to resolve this is appreciated. > > TIA > > Gardner Bell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This would be a "me too" reply. I have similar setup as the one you have and I notice the failure of procmail acquiring lock whenever there are too many messages (more than 5k) in my "freebsd-questions" mail folder (mbox format). I'm also subscribed to freebsd-current, freebsd-stable and a host of other lists, but it only happens to me so far on freebsd-questions (highest volume list). The only work around is to keep the number of messages hovering below 5k or so. I suspect this is an obscure bug with procmail handling high volume mboxes. Maybe using mail folder instead of mbox will help, but I have not tried this. -- Hong
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