[PLUG] Procmail help needed

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Paul. I suspected that was how they work and the confirmation is
>> apprciated.
>
> One last (I hope!) question:
>
> I use mbox format here in ~/mail and all perms are 666 (except for
> spam-uncaught, sent-mail, and postponed-mail which are 600,)

Is ~/mail is a directory or a file? I assume the former. If so, do you 
have the MAILDIR variable defined?

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

The reason I ask is that in the error messages you list below, I'd 
expect to see a full path (not just a folder name) in the "Error while 
writing" messages.

>
> I want to learn why the procmail log shows entries like this:
>
> procmail: Match on "[GRASS-user]"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=spatial-analyses"
> procmail: Opening "spatial-analyses"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: Error while writing to "spatial-analyses"

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