Sorry for the shotgun posting, but I'm not sure who would really
know about this the best.
THE PROBLEM
I've been having problems with my procmail logfile being
contaiminated with nulls (they show up as "^@" when I use
'cat -v' on the logfile).
HOW I USE PROCMAIL
I use a pop binary which delivers the mail to procmail
directly '/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail'
This works perfectly fine.
WHEN THE PROBLEM OCCURS
I've noticed that this seems to happen most often (98%)
when I call the 'pop' binary as the argument to 'pppd'
(for those who are not familiar, the version of pppd
2.3 can take an argument "ipparam" followed by the name of a
program.) The NULLs seem to happen almost exclusively
when I call the pop binary this way. I can call the same pop
binary before and after the NULLs appear and it does not
happen again. However, it does not happen every
time I call the pop binary this way, but the NULLs
seem to only appear when I do call pop this way.
Any thoughts, guesses, suppositions, or magical incantations
appreciated.
TjL
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