As some of you might of noticed during the huge centos update, Mail stopped
working... actually it was still working but just going into /var/spool/mail
instead of the users mbox as expected. This was caused purely by the
procmail update. The version of procmail that BQ uses is patched to use the
mbox in the users directory. This is done for several good reasons I won't
go into here... anyway..
When the standard Redhat/centos build is installed it's not patched to use a
mbox in the users directory... simple as that...
This is the orig BQ patch...
[root (at mark) filter redhat]# cat SOURCES/procmail-3.22-bluequartz.patch
diff -uNr procmail-3.22.orig/src/authenticate.c
procmail-3.22/src/authenticate.c
--- procmail-3.22.orig/src/authenticate.c 2001-06-29
11:20:36.000000000 +0900
+++ procmail-3.22/src/authenticate.c 2004-03-20 18:04:37.000000000 +0900
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar
*/
#endif
-/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the leading /
*/
- /* delivers to $HOME/.mail
*/
+#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/mbox" /* watch the leading / */
+ /* delivers to $HOME/mbox
*/
#define STRLEN(x) (sizeof(x)-1)
While the idea of using the /etc/procmailrc file is very creative, But IMHO
it's a bad idea. It means that every email that goes through the server has
to use that file. I'd almost want that file to be a daemon :) but it's
not... but hec these days, procmail almost needs to become a daemon... The
/etc/procmailrc file is not included in the procmail rpm and if it was it
would surely be marked "config/noreplace". honestly I don't know why you
folks have a procmailrc file anyway? I just tested it again without the
procmailrc file and it works just fine...
Now that's what broke the mail... Keep in mind though that it's actually
only a symptom of another problem that's in the forge now.
Fast solution
rpm -Uvh --force
http://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/5100R/CentOS4/bluequartz/i386/RPMS/procmail-3.22-14BQ2.i386.rpm
(it wasn't a security update. it was a maximum letter size update) - added
large file support (#228487)
Better Solution..
http://www.bqforge.com/
Because there are other things like this and several other problems with the
current system that are fixed here!
PS. I'll have tell you about httpd another time...
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