I have an odd bug to report that I'm not sure has been reported
before. I use fetchmail 5.9.6. My .forward file calls procmail
(procmail-3.22-1.1mdk) and my local MTA is sendmail
(sendmail-8.11.6-3mdk). My .fetchmailrc runs fetchmail as a daemon.
Once in a while, without any apparent trigger, my procmail logs start
showing me in the From instead of the actual from. The first example
below shows two procmail logs entries, just minutes apart, but for
some reason the sender is now "edh" in the second entry.
From newbie-owner(_at_)linux-mandrake(_dot_)com Mon Jan 28 01:58:54 2002
Subject: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
Folder: tee -a /home/edh/Mail/lists/2002/01/mandrake-newbie /home/ed 2829
From edh Mon Jan 28 02:09:21 2002
Subject: Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
Folder: tee -a /home/edh/Mail/lists/2002/01/mandrake-expert /home/ed 4536
It continues this way with just "edh" as the sender, until I noticed
it in the logs just now and "fixed" it by stop/starting fetchmail in
between the following two log entries:
From edh Mon Jan 28 12:56:42 2002
Subject: Re: Babies
Folder: /var/spool/mail/edh 9882
From jeff(_at_)cleandrive(_dot_)net Mon Jan 28 13:06:25 2002
Subject: Warning! Every move you make on your computer is being logged. [ns16t
Folder: SPAM 1760
I'm not sure what could be causing this but I thought I would report
it. Let me know if I can answer any other questions...
Eric