[PLUG] Mail log reporting: cron issue?

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Sun May 24 20:15:35 UTC 2009


>   The procmail log shows the strace output being delivered to
> /var/spool/mail/rshepard (which is was), but not the summary report. Yet it
> was the strace output that suggested (I'm being cautious here) that the
> summary report was mailed to me.

just for clarification, that output is not strace.  the -x option to sh 
tells it to display commands as it is going to run them.

>   I'm wondering if I should figure out how to install and configure maildrop
> rather than procmail. This is the first time in a dozen years that procmail
> has behaved this way, at least that I've been aware of dropped messages.
> Also, it's been a decade or so since I installed postfix and pflogsumm and
> that's worked daily until recently, too.
>
>   The reason I think that this is a procmail issue is when I direct _all_
> incoming messages addressed to my business domain to the personal domain
> mail file, they all appear. Example: last week customer service at United
> Airlines tried sending me a receipt copy to both my business and personal
> domains. /var/log/maillog showed both arriving and passed on to procmail,
> but neither appeared in the default or personal mail file. When I modified
> the procmail recipe file to direct mail from the business domain to the
> personal domain file, the third time that message was sent it was delivered.
>
>   In this instance cron was not involved and neither was 1pflogsumm. All
> three messages showed up in /var/log/maillog as properly received and passed
> to procmail. Only the last one, specifically redirecting mail addressed to
> me at my business domain to the personal domain file, was delivered.
>
>   Unfortunately, there is no longer a procmail-specific mail list nor anyone
> I've found who knows it well enough to provide insight into the problem.

i use procmail all over the place and have no troubles with it (that i 
didn't cause myself :-).



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