access.digex.net's staff made a flimsy excuse for Paul Bartlett's problems:
| > 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.
Liviu Daia responded,
| 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.
I am inclined to agree with Dr. Daia. Most likely Digex personnel messed
up some crossmounts or fooled around with /etc/procmailrc and are scram-
bling for spin control.
Digex is located in the world capital of being Up There in a clue-free zone,
so the double talk is no surprise. If there really are incompatibilities
between those sendmail versions and certain procmail features, I'd like to
know the details and see examples.