I don't know what I changed...it must have been something that affected mail delivery within my local domain. I run a mail server on my linux box and using procmail, it successfully receives and sends mail across the Internet for me and my family (on 192.168.1.x).
But when I try to send mail to other computers on my local network, the mail does not get delivered. What happenes is that the mail "sits" in /var/spool/mqueue along with a ".lock" file. I can force the mail to get delivered by rm'ing the .lock file repeatedly and checking for delivery with mailq. When the mail is finally delivered, I must manually "killall procmail" and then rm all of the files in the /var/spool/mqueue directory. Once I do that, mail delivery resumes as normal. My analysis of the procmail.log file is that at some point in the delivery chain the ".lock" file isn't being removed and things stop there. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong in /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog. Is there anything else thatCan anyone see how I can fix the problem? Here is a "small" excerpt from my procmail.log file that shows the problem when I (mark) send an e-mail to another user on my local network (merri). Thanks for any help, Mark procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).redhat" procmail: Match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).merri" procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/sendmail" procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/sendmail,-oi,merri" procmail: [945] Fri Jul 18 13:13:08 2003 procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi merri" procmail: Unlocking ".lock" procmail: Notified comsat: "merri@:/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi merri" >From mark Fri Jul 18 13:13:07 2003 Subject: testing 1 2 3 Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi merri 3579 procmail: [950] Fri Jul 18 13:13:08 2003 procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).chemteach" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).mark" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).redhat" procmail: Match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).merri" procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/sendmail" procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/sendmail,-oi,merri" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:08 2003 procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).chemteach" procmail: Match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).mark" procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/sbin/sendmail" procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:16 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:24 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:32 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:40 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:48 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: [953] Fri Jul 18 13:13:56 2003 procmail: Locking ".lock" procmail: Terminating prematurely procmail: Notified comsat: "merri@:**Requeued**" >From mark Fri Jul 18 13:13:08 2003 Folder: **Requeued** 3710 procmail: Unlocking ".lock" procmail: Terminating prematurely whilst waiting for lockfile "0á°ßB" procmail: Notified comsat: "mark@:**Requeued**" >From mark Fri Jul 18 13:13:08 2003 Folder: **Requeued** 0 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
