(Reply set to list; at least, that is my intention.)
I had some recipes which worked just dandy under procmail v3.10 on
SunOS 4.1.4. (One I developed with the assistance of you kind folks.)
One of them processed spam I felt confident in discarding outright on
criteria; it extracted information, made a special one-line log entry,
and then delivered to /dev/null. The other was basically a simple
expansion of the vacation autoresponder given in man procmailex, with
the date and subject extracted for documentation in the autoresponse
message.
Then my ISP upgraded the procmail on the mail servers to 3.11pre7,
and those recipes "broke." Apparently they somehow brought the mail
servers to their knees, although I do not have specifics. The help
desk claims that 3.11pre7 was installed with "some switches set" that
apparently are causing those recipes to make big trouble, but the
systems staff provide few or no details, even to the help desk. Has
anyone heard of such a things as installation "switches" in 3.11pre7
which could cause 3.10-correct procmail recipes to cause sendmail
sessions go wild? (On another of my ISPs subdomains everything seems
to be OK, but I don't know what version of procmail it is running.)
(Please don't suggest changing ISPs. That is not currently an
option.)
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