On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:12:00PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:20PM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > I installed FC4 today and configured mail using 'postfix', > > 'mutt' and 'fetchmail/procmail' just as under FC3. > > However procmail refuses to create '/var/mail/$LOGNAME' > > with this message from fetchmail: > > fetchmail: reading message awol@xxxxxxxxxxxx:82 of 87 (4988 octets) .... > > procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/awo" > Yeah, the file will have to already exist -- /var/spool/mail isn't mode 777. > (This is the case with FC3 too.) Yes I know but if I remember correctly in FC3 the file was created automatically. This does not happen in FC4! > Personally, I avoid the issue by making this the last line in my > .procmailrc: > :0 > inbox/ I solved the problem by creating the file by hand with the correct ownerships en permissions. Alexander
