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procmail problem (fwd)

1997-05-30 10:36:00
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:

----
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
----

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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