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This tells me that it points to the file (mailbackup).  Either the
permissions are wrong or the path to the file in the procmail recipe has a
typo or other permissions/ownership problems.

So I investigate further:
working:
drw-------   5 user1    site2        1024 Dec 22 02:36 .
drw-------  51 httpd    site2        1024 Dec 21 14:24 ..
-rw-------   1 user1    site2           0 Aug  4 08:54 .addressbook
-rw-------   1 user1    site2        2285 Aug  4 08:54 .addressbook.lu
-rw-------   1 user1    site2           5 Nov 30 08:28 .bash_history
-rw-------   1 user1    site2          30 Aug 23 10:26 .forwardold
-rw-------   1 user1    site2         778 Jul 15 12:25 .ftphelp
-rw-------   1 user1    site2     2791892 Dec 22 13:07 .logfile.pr
-rw-------   1 user1    site2        6877 Nov 19 12:45 .pine-debug1
-rw-------   1 user1    site2        7740 Nov 19 11:43 .pine-debug2
-rw-------   1 user1    site2        7038 Nov 19 11:01 .pine-debug3
-rw-------   1 user1    site2        7819 Nov 17 11:01 .pine-debug4
-rw-------   1 user1    site2       10351 Nov 19 12:42 .pinerc
-rw-------   1 user1    site2         307 Dec 22 02:36 .procmailrc
-rw-------   1 user1    site2          63 Aug  5 11:09 .profile
-rw-------   1 user1    site2         300 Nov 10 20:01 dead.letter
drwx------   2 user1    users        1024 Nov 19 12:45 mail
-rwx-w----   1 mailarch site2      266735 Dec 22 13:07 mailbackup
drwxrwsr-x   2 user1    site2        1024 Dec  8 13:44 web

non-working:
drw-------   4 user2    site2        1024 Dec 22 03:09 .
drw-------  51 httpd    site2        1024 Dec 21 14:24 ..
-rw-------   1 user2    site2           0 Jul 29 18:59 .addressbook
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        2285 Jul 29 18:59 .addressbook.lu
-rw-------   1 user2    site2          46 Aug 19 20:36 .bash_history
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        3242 Dec 22 13:05 .logfile.pr
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        6557 Aug 19 20:25 .pine-debug1
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        7427 Jul 29 20:08 .pine-debug2
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        5920 Jul 29 20:04 .pine-debug3
-rw-------   1 user2    site2        6488 Jul 29 20:02 .pine-debug4
-rw-------   1 user2    site2       10349 Aug 19 20:24 .pinerc
-rw-------   1 user2    site2         193 Dec 22 03:00 .procmailrc
drwx------   2 user2    users        1024 Aug 19 20:24 mail
-rwx-w----   1 mailarch site2           0 Dec 22 03:00 mailbackup
drwxrwsr-x   2 user2    site2        1024 Jul 29 01:51 web

Both mailbackup files SHOULD be owned by user "mailarch" for archiving, and
are writable by group "site2" members. (I'm thinking of a more secure way of
doing this, but just wanted to get this working for now).

Any thoughts?


> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rik Thomas
>
> Do they have an autoresponder set?
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Joi wrote:
>
> > I've set up a procmail script to backup email to a file in the
> user's home
> > directory.  The script is working on some accounts, but not others, even
> > though it's exactly the same and all permissions, ownership,
> etc. for all
> > involved files is the same.
> >
> > Has anyone ever heard of this?
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be completely random.  The procmailrc works
> for one user
> > over and over again, without fail.  Then, for another user, it has never
> > worked, even though all the setup (files, etc.) is the same.