Re: procmail: Lock failure

LuKreme <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Jun 2014 07:17:33 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.procmail
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> On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:58, Bernard Schoenacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/bernard.lock"

You are not allowed to write new files in var spool mail.

> what is the solution for MH ?

I don't very much your inbox is in MH format. The solution is to set the path to your mailfders and not lock recipes that deliver to $DEFAULT unless you changed that to be in your user space.