I am surprised there isn't a single *procmail* newsgroup!!
How could the entire worldwide UNIX community live w/o Prock?! :]
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:42:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Leftwich <pete(_at_)cloud9(_dot_)net>
To: pete(_at_)cloud9(_dot_)net
Subject: (fwd) Procmail, Unk Error 139, Diagnose?
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
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FOR THE BRAVE, read on, and see if we can BEAT procmail! :]
My brother has been having a problem with procmail, though it is VERY
simply set up. If just ONE message generates core, then the next 6-7
do as well. I once found on his account a file with what appeared to
be an incorrect umask, or chmod. Here's the bounce in its entirety,
following what the core and .lockmail look like:
-r-------- 1 leftwich users 1 Jan 23 14:49 .lockmail
I thought this should at least be created as chmod 600 no?
Also, I just did `strings ~leftwich/Mail/incoming/procmail.core |less -e`
and found that (I am guessing) the more "Received" lines there are in
headers, the more likely a crash. Here's a long example:
From owner-blues-l(_at_)BROWNVM(_dot_)BROWN(_dot_)EDU Thu Jan 30 21:54:29 1997
Received: from BROWNVM.brown.edu (brownvm.brown.edu [128.148.19.19]) by cloud9.n
et (8.8.5/cloud9-1.0) with SMTP id VAA26049 for
<leftwich(_at_)CLOUD9(_dot_)NET>; Thu, 30 J
an 1997 21:54:28 -0500 (EST)
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2)
with BSMTP id 2762; Thu, 30 Jan 97 21:52:22 EST
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.
EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5013; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:52:21 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b)
with NJE id 3366 for BLUES-L(_at_)BROWNVM(_dot_)BROWN(_dot_)EDU; Thu,
30 Jan 1997
21:52:17 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LMAILER(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9613; Thu, 30 Jan
1997 21:42:14 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4722; Thu, 30 Jan
1997 21:42:14 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM (NJE origin SMTP(_at_)BROWNVM) by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
(LMail
V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7526; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:26:03 -0500
Received: from knot.QueensU.CA by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with
TCP; Thu, 30 Jan 97 11:26:02 EST
Received: (from news(_at_)localhost) by knot.QueensU.CA (8.6.12/8.6.10+ASH) id
LAA26148; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:27:53 -0500...
And finally, here is what his list moderator forwarded from mailer-daemon:
------------------------- Message in error -------------------------
Received: from BROWNVM (NJE origin SMTP(_at_)BROWNVM) by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
(LMail
V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0158; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:00:07
-0500
Received: from cloud9.net by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with
TCP;
Thu, 30 Jan 97 22:00:03 EST
Received: from localhost (localhost) by cloud9.net (8.8.5/cloud9-1.0)
with
internal id WAA26207; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:01:56 -0500 (EST)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:01:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)cloud9(_dot_)net>
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 139
Message-Id: <199701310301(_dot_)WAA26207(_at_)cloud9(_dot_)net>
To: <owner-blues-l(_at_)BROWNVM(_dot_)BROWN(_dot_)EDU>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
The original message was received at Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:55:49 -0500
(EST)
from brownvm.brown.edu [128.148.19.19]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail #leftwich"
(expanded from: <leftwich(_at_)CLOUD9(_dot_)NET>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
Memory fault - core dumped
554 "|/usr/local/bin/procmail #leftwich"... unknown mailer error 139
----- Original message follows -----
Return-Path: owner-blues-l(_at_)BROWNVM(_dot_)BROWN(_dot_)EDU
Received: from BROWNVM.brown.edu (brownvm.brown.edu [128.148.19.19]) by
cloud9.net
(8.8.5/cloud9-1.0) with SMTP id VAA26204 for <leftwich(_at_)CLOUD9(_dot_)NET>;
Thu,
30 Jan 1997 21:55:49
-0500 (EST)
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2)
with BSMTP id 2529; Thu, 30 Jan 97 21:53:16 EST
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail
V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5041; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:53:16 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LISTSERV release
1.8b)
with NJE id 3416 for BLUES-L(_at_)BROWNVM(_dot_)BROWN(_dot_)EDU; Thu,
30 Jan
1997
21:53:12 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LMAILER(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9647; Thu,
30 Jan
1997 21:43:10 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV(_at_)BROWNVM) by
BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4792; Thu,
30 Jan
1997 21:43:10 -0500
Received: from BROWNVM (NJE origin SMTP(_at_)BROWNVM) by BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
(LMail
V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5038; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:17:01
-0500
Received: from relay2.UU.NET by BROWNVM.brown.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2)
with TCP;
Thu, 30 Jan 97 16:16:53 EST
Received: from news.ziplink.net by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP (peer
crosschecked
as: news.ziplink.net [199.232.240.5]) id QQcatx26843; Thu, 30
Jan
1997 16:18:34 -0500 (EST)
Received: (from news(_at_)localhost) by news.ziplink.net (8.7.6/8.6.12) id
QAA14375;
Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:17:04 -0500 (EST)
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From: nate(_at_)reflection(_dot_)com (Nate Goldshlag)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.blues-l
Subject: Re: super bowl What others are saying
Date: 30 Jan 1997 21:17:03 GMT
Organization: ZipLink -- America's Hottest ISP
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References:
<970128123233_1693027366(_at_)emout05(_dot_)mail(_dot_)aol(_dot_)com>
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In article
<970128123233_1693027366(_at_)emout05(_dot_)mail(_dot_)aol(_dot_)com>,
BluesMojo(_at_)aol(_dot_)com wrote:
[snip]