Procmail: Program failure

[Anonymous]

Procmail was working fine and dandy. Then, I enabled WebMail in Server Admin (I know SA restart bad mistake). Now, all incoming mail being filtered through Procmail is not reaching user’s inboxes.

I get the following info in the mail.log when messages attept to make it to Cyrus’ deliver program:

Aug  7 07:25:22 xserve postfix/pipe[25243]: 987AB394052: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=procmail, delay=4, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: procmail: Couldn't read "/Users//.procmailrc" procmail: Program failure (65) of "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver" )

I noticed that the user name doesn’t appear in the error “/Users//.procmailrc”. This made me think that my transport in master.cf was bungled somehow.

I’ve checked and double-checked main.cf and master.cf files and they are correct. I’ve restarted Postfix. Still the same error.

Any advice is much appreciated.

[5280Toad]

My main.cf critical lines:

mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -t -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_transport = procmail

(commented out ‘mailbox_transport = cyrus)

My master.cf transport:

procmail  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=R user=cyrus argv=/usr/bin/procmail -t -m USER=${user} EXTENSION=${extension} /etc/procmailrc

My procmail recipe to hand off to Cyrus:

DELIVERTO="/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver"
USERINBOX="$DELIVERTO -e -a $USER -m user/$USER"

:0w
| $USERINBOX

[jgardner]

Check the file permissions on /etc/procmailrc and on the .procmailrc file in your home directory. Be sure the “mail” group has read permissions.

[Andy Clark]

Same problem. I managed to get rid of the:
Couldn’t read “/Users//.procmailrc”
error. My procmail entry in master.cf was on one line. I threw in a carriage return after “pipe” and got rid of the first error. The single line entry must have kept the environment variables from being passed.to procmail.

[Andy Clark]

Seem to have figured out the second error.
Tried testing out delivery manually.
cat test_message | /usr/bin/procmail -t -m USER=aclark /etc/procmailrc

procmail: Error while writing to “/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver”
procmail: Program failure (65) of “/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver”

(I use period rather than slash for delimitter in cyrus)
cat test_message | /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver -e -a -m user.aclark
user.aclark: Mailbox does not exist

It looks like the -m option for procmail wants just the userid, not user/userid or user.userid

Changed /etc/procmailrc from:
USERINBOX=”$DELIVERTO -e -a $user -m user/$USER”
to:
USERINBOX=”$DELIVERTO -e -a $user -m $USER”

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