kmail2 question on Fedora 15 [ANSWERED]

[Lester M. Petrie Jr.]

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 01:58:56 PM Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have finally gotten kmail2 to run on my Fedora 15 machine.  I ended up using 
> an entirely different mail directory.  I was able to import the mail from the 
> old directories into new versions.  But I do have one annoying problem.  My 
> mail is delivered directly to the machine, and spooled to /var/mail/user-id.  
> kmail was configured to go check the spool periodically, move the mail into my 
> inbox, and delete the mail from the spool.  I haven't found a way to get 
> kmail2 to do this.  Currently I have added the spool as another mailbox, and 
> when mail shows up, I manually move it, and then manually run a script to 
> delete it from the spool.  How do I setup kmail2 to do the previous behavior?  
> Thanks.
> 

This turned out to not be a kmail2 problem at all, but was a SELinux problem.  I had apparently turned off
being notified of procmail AVCs, and procmail was being prevented from delivering the mail.  I logged into
a console instead of a gui while a set of Fedora update notices was being delivered, and the terminal was 
flooded with procmail AVC messages (which later were not in audit.log).  After relabeling the mail directories
as a type that procmail can write to, now mail is being delivered as it should.

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Lester M Petrie
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