Paul Bartlett wrote,
| 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.
Any procmailrc syntax that worked under 3.10 will work under 3.11pre7; the
problem is something else that happened at the same time. I'd guess it was
related to Digex's putting mail delivery and user logins onto different
machines; that causes me no end of trouble on one of my accounts.
| 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?
The only new "switches" I can think of from 3.10 to 3.11pre7 are to put the
default mail spool under the user's $HOME instead of a system-wide spool
directory. However, these "switches" could be something available in 3.10
but not used by Digex when it was running 3.10, such as changed settings in
/etc/procmailrc.
Paul, would you be so good as to post the recipes? Then we can see for sure
if there's anything in your rcfile that might be the problem (though I doubt
it).