Re: procmail cannot write to local directories

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

Don't know for sure but judging by the missing quotes and first letter 
from many of your messages, I'm guessing your running with text mounts.
Try binary mounts instead and see if anything is better.

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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At 02:47 PM 12/10/2001, C. Porter Bassett wrote:
>I downloaded cygwin-compiled procmail from
>http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~madokam/.  Right now, I am trying to use it to
>filter an existing test mailbox that has two messages in it by running
>  $ cat testspool |procmail
>
>Here's my super-simple .procmailrc which should do nothing put put all
>messages into ~/Mail/inbox and write its log to ~/.procmail/log:
>     PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
>     SHELL=/bin/sh
>     VERBOSE=no
>     MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
>     DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox
>     PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
>     LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
>
>:0
>$DEFAULT
>
>
>When I try to do this, procmail gives me all kinds of odd errors.  Here's
>what procmail puts into stderr:
>
>     ~/Mail$ cat testspool |procmail
>     "rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/.procmail/log
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     "rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     .lock"il: Lock failure on "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
>     "rocmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail/inbox
>
>
>I have no idea why it cannot write to /home/porter/.procmail/log or
>/home/porter/Mail/inbox.  I can modify both of them.  I also have no idea
>why it keeps saying Skipped ".
>
>
>
>In case it helps, here's the same thing, but with VERBOSE=yes :
>     ~/Mail$ cat testspool |procmail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:43 2001
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     "rocmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Assigning "DEFAULT=/home/porter/Mail
>     "rocmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/porter/.procmail
>     "logmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/porter/.procmail
>     "logmail: Opening "/home/porter/.procmail
>     "logmail: Error while writing to "/home/porter/.procmail
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     "rocmail: Skipped "
>     "inboxil: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Opening "/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N._9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:51 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N,_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:39:59 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N+_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:07 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N%_9QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:15 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N.f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:23 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N,f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:31 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N+f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: [888] Mon Dec 10 12:40:39 2001
>     .lock"il: Locking "/home/porter/Mail
>     /_4N%f-QF8.PWORK"hile writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     .lock"il: Lock failure on "/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Opening "/home/porter/Mail
>     "inboxil: Error while writing to "/home/porter/Mail
>     procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/porter"
>     procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/porter"
>     From <#@[]> Mon Dec 10 02:43:29 2001
>     Subject: Re: mutt on cygwin
>     Folder: /var/spool/mail/porter
>80283
>     ~/Mail$
>
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