i have configured fetchmail for 4 users on centos 5 box to retrive mail from our remote mail server when i give the fetchmail -v it is retriving messages but iam getting the following error

procmail:counldn't change dir to /home/saravanan/mail

this is my .fetchmail rc file
vim /home/saravanan/.fetchmailrc

poll mail.example.com with proto pop3
user saravananpp@example.com there with password saru123 is saravanan here
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

this my .procmailrc file

vim /home/saravanan/.procmailrc

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.

DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/saravanan

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin
:0:

* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/home/saravanan/mail/.spam/

:0fw
| /usr/local/bin/clamassassin

* ^X-Virus-Status: Yes
/home/saravanan/mail/.virus
~


unfortunatly fetcmail is working fine for one user only

what is the reason

check the mail log.
What s the error message appered.?

What are the permissions of /home/saravanan/mail and what user are you running fetchmail as? What groups is that user a member of?

thsi is the file permission

-rwx--x--- 1 saravanan saravanan 143 May 6 11:34 .fetchmailrc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 saravanan saravanan 307 May 6 11:54 .procmailrc

That wasn't what I asked

thank u for ur reply there is no mail foder under /home/saravanan i think procmail wiil create mail folder under /home/saravanan also it will create .spam floder under /home/saravanan/mail

why i am telling this only one user in this machine is having as following
tree /home/joshua/ -a
/home/joshua/

|-- mail
| |-- .imap
| | `-- INBOX
| | |-- dovecot.index
| | |-- dovecot.index.cache
| | `-- dovecot.index.log
| `-- .spam
| |-- cur
| |-- new
| | |-- 1209971791.4960_0.server2.avlx.com
| | |-- 1210056267.19906_1.server2
| | `-- 1210056274.19909_1.server2
| `-- tmp
`-- mbox

8 directories, 22 files


if i told wrongly dont mistaken me and kindly guide me

Which user is running fetchmail, or is each user running it for themselves. If only one user, is that the user that things works for?

ihave to configure fro more than 50 users for testing purpose i configured for 4 user each user running it for themselves.

Are you getting any messages in any of your logs when it fails? Not sure which to check. Send a message and look at the timestamp on your logs (with ls -l)

no i didn't get any log

this is procmail log
tail -f /home/ilayaraja/.procmaillog
Folder: **Bounced** 0
procmail: Lock failure on "/home/ilayaraja/mail/.spam/.lock"
procmail: Unable to treat as directory "/home/ilayaraja/mail/.spam"
procmail: Error while writing to "/home/ilayaraja/mail/.spam"
procmail: Skipped "* ^X-Virus-Status: Yes"
procmail: Skipped "/home/joshua/mail/.virus"
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/ilayaraja.lock"

Does the dirtectory /home/ilayaraja/mail/ exist? If so, what does

ls -la /home/ilayaraja/mail/

show?

/home/ilayaraja/mail directory is not exsist

Then I'd try creating it as user ilayaraja. you may need to creat .spam as well, but try that after.

Edit - note you could add mail in /etc/skel to have these created when you add new users

thank for ur co-opreation
i create mail folder manualy now spam mails goes to .spam floder

thanks

Great - look into skel for automatic creation


Rgds (and thanks for letting us know it worked - not enough folks bother)