Greetings. I'm hoping someone can help me with a procmail problem. I
subscribed to the list earlier today but haven't received any messages yet,
so forgive me if this seems out of place.
I have procmail installed on our mail server here at AFN, running on a
FreeBSD machine. It appears to work quite well without any performance
problems. However, my boss has been bitching at me about the occasional
occurence of a transient error that shows up as this:
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The original message was received at Wed, 14 May 1997 03:53:48 -0400 (EDT)
from root(_at_)localhost
----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
#admin" (unrecoverable error)
(expanded from: admin)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
#admin"... Deferred
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
[ Part 2: "Included Message" ]
Reporting-MTA: dns; freenet1.afn.org
Arrival-Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 03:53:48 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; admin(_at_)freenet1(_dot_)afn(_dot_)org
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p
&& exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #admin(_at_)freenet1(_dot_)afn(_dot_)org
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 04:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
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The recipe in question that seems to cause it is quite simple:
:0 i :
* ^From.*mailer-daemon*
bounced
# Mail from "daemon" or "root" should go to the 'system' folder.
:0 :
* ^From(_dot_)*root(_at_)*afn(_dot_)org*
system
:0 :
* ^From(_dot_)*daemon(_at_)*afn(_dot_)org*
system
I don't get this error at all with my personal account, which receives
almost as much mail and has many more recipies. And the error only occurs
when I receive a message from root (usually a cron job or the like), never
when the mail comes from an actual user. I'm thinking it could be a locking
problem but that doesn't seem to quite fit...
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