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problems with mail spool and new users

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garwain

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Jan 30, 2002
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I am having trouble with my postfix server and new users. When an email is sent to a user who doesn't have a file in /var/spool/mail the sender has the following message returned ( I created a user "test" to test this problem):
can't create user output file. Command output: procmail:
Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/test" procmail: Lock failure on
"/var/spool/mail/test.lock" procmail: Error while writing to
"/var/spool/mail/test"

If I "touch test" then set it's owner to test and group to mail, it will work...

Any ideas?
 
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