On 17 July 1998, Paul O Bartlett <pobart(_at_)access(_dot_)digex(_dot_)net>
wrote:
[...]
The story's actually pretty straightforward:
Several months ago, the mail servers were upgraded to a new operating
system, new version of sendmail (from 8.6.x to 8.8.x), and the current
version of procmail. We did some testing of common recipes; they
worked fine.
The sendmail people have recently acknowledged that sendmail versions
beyond 8.7.5 haven't worked properly with certain types of procmail
rulesets. This problem has been corrected in 8.9.x; 8.9.1 was just
released this month.
Yes, we'll move to 8.9.x when we convert our 8.8.x-specific things
to work with 8.9.x, and we do some thorough testing. Yes, it's being
worked on now.
= = = = = = =
Apparently the two recipes I recently posted were "certain
types of procmail rulesets" which did not work with the new
sendmail/procmail combination. (I do not know what the new operating
systems are; I suspect SunOS or Solaris.) Comments?
Personally, I used procmail 3.11pre7 and 3.10 with all versions of
sendmail from 8.7.4 to 8.9.1, without any problem whatsoever (not of the
kind you describe anyway). Granted, I didn't use all procmail commands
in my recipes, but I still suspect somebody Up There at your ISP is
living in a clue-free zone, and is giving you huge amounts of BS.
Regards,
Liviu
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