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Re: procmail-d Digest V97 #348

1997-11-09 16:57:08
Eeek! Help! 

I have created a procmail recipe that sends sendmail into a runaway spiral
of child processes... forcing me to restart my machine! I'm running
sendmail 8.8.5/Linux RedHat 4.2/kernel 2.0.30/i586. This mailbox is on a
different server from my main mailbox.

Can anyone see the problems?

Thanks,

Glen

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* My 'Recipe for Disaster'

MAILDIR=$HOME
PROCHOME=$HOME/.procmail
LOGABSTRACT=on
SHELL=/bin/sh
LOGFILE=$PROCHOME/log
MYMAIL=mail
LISTS=$MYMAIL/lists
PUBLIC=$HOME/pub/lists
DEFAULT=$MYMAIL/inbox/.
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
MYADDRESS=glenmo(_at_)ozemail(_dot_)com(_dot_)au
MYXLOOP="X-Loop: $MYADDRESS"

:0 hc
| formail -XFrom: -XSubject: | $SENDMAIL $MYADDRESS


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* And my .forward file contains the following:


\glen
"| exec /usr/bin/procmail #glen"


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