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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:39:40 -0400 (EDT), Mark Neidorff wrote:

> 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

Strange folder name. What does your ~/.procmailrc look like?
It looks much as if you inserted a bad recipe.

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