Procmail/Smartlist save to directory problem
I have a recipe in Smartlist to save certain mails to a directory in MH format (yyyy/.). I had the Smartlist to create this directory upon this recipe. Everything went fine. In addition, I need to also save certain mails into this same directory in the MH format from recipes in my personal .procmailrc (/path/to/yyyy/.). I made sure my account has proper group permissions (770; my account is on its group; I manually tested) to write into this directory. However, the process of my account .procmailrc generates following errors: procmail: Unable to treat as directory "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Opening "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" In the meanwhile the Smartlist saves into the MH directory still fine. I wonder what could be the problem? Zhiliang
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Zhiliang wrote:
I have a recipe in Smartlist to save certain mails to a directory in MH format (yyyy/.). I had the Smartlist to create this directory upon this recipe. Everything went fine.
In addition, I need to also save certain mails into this same directory in the MH format from recipes in my personal .procmailrc (/path/to/yyyy/.).
That seems a complete hack to me. Instead, I would send those mails to the list itself and let smartlist filter them. That way you would not have to fiddle with permissions.
On May 10, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Zhiliang <hu@animalgenome.org> wrote:
procmail: Unable to treat as directory "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Opening "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/slist/xxx/yyyy"
Check permissions on the other directories in the path, e.g /var/slist/ and so on.
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