Subject: Re: question about dmail when mailbox over quota

From: "J. A. Landamore" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:54:12 +0000 (GMT)

Mark replied:
>
>On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, J. A. Landamore wrote:
>> 	Many thanks for the information, and apologies for my confusing
>> mail.  The mail is silently dropped.  I thought dmail was hanging from
>> the way the log just stopped part way through the attempt by dmail to
>> deliver the mail and there was no debug info about it cleaning up.
>> However there is no dmail process running and the mailfile is left in an
>> intact state.
>
>Something is suspicious.  After the "appending to" message there
>should have been either a "delivered to" or a "message delivery failed to"
>message, both to stderr and to syslog.

I get a "delivered to" message in my syslogs, but not the "message delivery 
failed to"

>
>> Also subsequent writes that don't take it over-quota are
>> successful.  So it's a procmail problem, thanks for the insight.
>
>Good luck in finding this!

The problem has been solved.  As Mark said procmail just silently drops mail 
that isn't delivered successfully unless you tell it to wait.  This is done with 
the w flag on the first line of the recipe i.e  :0 becomes :0 w

Thanks for all the guidance

John Landamore

School of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Leicester
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