Hi,
I'm currently using procmail-3.11pre7 with sendmail 8.8.6.Beta3 under
Linux. Ever since I upgraded to the new sendmail, procmail will hang on
certain addresses (from AOL, CERT, etc.) The mail shouldn't match any of
the rules in procmailrc, so I don't see where the problem is coming in.
Here's an appropriate section of logfile:
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From owner-majordomo-users-outgoing(_at_)GreatCircle(_dot_)COM Thu May 29
17:13:10 1997
Subject: address contained invalid cntrl chars
Folder: incoming-majordomo 2117
procmail: Terminating prematurely
From cert_mailer(_at_)cert(_dot_)org Thu May 29 11:57:40 1997
Subject: CERT Advisory CA-97.16 - ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability
Folder: **Requeued** 18106
procmail: Couldn't unlock "/u/felicity/mail/lockfile"
procmail: Terminating prematurely
From cert_mailer(_at_)cert(_dot_)org Thu May 29 16:17:47 1997
Subject: CERT Advisory CA-97.17 - Vulnerability in suidperl (sperl)
Folder: **Requeued** 27621
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The head of my rc file:
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SHELL=/bin/sh # for other shells, this might need adjustment
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/local/bin
HOME=/u/felicity
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
#LOCKFILE=$MAILDIR/lockfile
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
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I commented out the lockfile since it seemed to be causing the problem
above, but the process still stalls. The intersting thing is that if I
kill the procmail PID, and re-run the queue, the mail is delivered fine.
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Theo Van Dinter www: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/
Secretary of WPI Lens and Lights Junior Systems Administrator
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