[PLUG] Procmail issues

[David]

On 10/31/19 3:13 PM, Louis Kowolowski wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>> I addition to several mail lists not being properly routed by procmail
>>> recipies, for each incoming message the log records:
>>> procmail: Opening "/log"
>>> procmail: Error while writing to "/log"
>>>
>>> The log file in located in ~/procmail/ and has 666 perms.
>>
>> Looking more closely at the procmail log file it appears that the
>> mis-routing of some mail list messages are due to procmail not being able to
>> write to those files.
>>
>> _All_ files in ~/mail/ have 666 perms.
>>
>> What might cause a writing problem by procmail to any of these files?
>>
> If there is an error writing to “/log” that sounds like a path problem.
> 
> For permissions, directory permissions?


This is precisely what I was trying to say here:

      http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2019-October/093324.html

I personally don't believe that permissions are the issue here.

Perhaps if a sanitized version of your .procmail file could be pasted so 
we may be able to help you better?

david