Hi,

I've been running postfix+procmail on my mail server. Since a friend has recommended using maildrop, I thought I'd give it a try. Naturally, I ran into a snag almost immediately.

With procmail, /etc/procmail is my system wide configuration file. To keep a record I turn on VERBOSE and have LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.

Naturally I would like to do the same thing with maildrop.

As I'm running Mandrake 10.0, I'm using the mandrake rpms which makes /etc/maildrop/maildroprc the system wide configuration file. I've converted all my procmail rules to maildrop rules and included

logfile "/var/log/maildrop.log"

for logging. Unfortunately this results in an error:

maildrop: Unable to create log file.

Here's the full output of a simple command line test:

[root@nic tmp]# maildrop -V8 -d relson < msg.test maildrop: Changing to /home/relson Message start at 60 bytes, envelope sender=us...@example.com /etc/maildrop/maildroprc(1): Opening logfile /var/log/maildrop.log maildrop: Unable to create log file.

I've tried a variety of owner, group and permission combinations:

chown 0:mail /var/log/maildrop.log chmod 4711 /usr/bin/maildrop chmod 6711 /usr/bin/maildrop

but it hasn't helped.

chmod 6711 /usr/bin/maildrop

My questions are:

Can one use maildrop as I wish?

Are special permissions needed for the mailbox executable, /var/log, and/or /var/log/maildrop.log?

Thanks in advance,

David