Re: problems with procmail and postfix

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:53:29PM -0700, Ted Frohling wrote:
> I'm having a terrible time getting procmail to interoperate with postfix
> for the delivery of mail using user specific .procmailrc files.
>
> Actually, I can't get postfix to deliver them with procmail in any
> way, regardless of the existance of the ~/$USER?.procmailrc file or
> not. If I use:
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail or
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" or
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -f- -a "$USER" or
>
> in the main.cf file
>
> or
>
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #tsf"
>
> in the user's .forward file
>
> in the log I get:
>
> May 10 17:00:26 server postfix/local[31442]: 7D82513DF4:
> to=<tsf@server.frohling.org>, orig_to=<ted@server.frohling.org>,
> relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 231:
> "/usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"")
>
> The mail gets delivered to the user's default mail box. I've looked
> through the documentation and googled for the meaning ot the
> "Command died with status 231:" to no avail. The message is getting
> bounced back to the sender as the log message says it is.
>
> Here is the main.cf file I'm using, yes I know it the `default settings'
> file with a few changes.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
> ted

I'm pretty much a PF newbie, myself, but I think you are working too
hard. I have PF running on five of my machines plus our local ISP,
and I never had to touch that parameter. "postconf mailbox_command"
reports

mailbox_command =

and is using procmail happily. All these machines are running RedHat
9 with postfix (v1.1.12-1) as distributed, with suitable
configuration.

> <snipped config laundry list (I believe "postconf -n" is preferred)>
> --
> Ted Frohling (TF30-ARIN) The University of Arizona
> 520.621.4834 Assistant Director CCIT Room 126
> tsf-at-Arizona-dot-EDU CCIT - Network Services PO Box 210073
> www.Telcom.Arizona.EDU/tsf Tucson, AZ 85721-0073

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