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Re: Strange Problem?

1999-07-14 13:34:37
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Pierre Fridez wrote:

Hi all,

I am using procmail v3.13.1 under Solaris2.6 with sendmail.

When somebody sends a message to a list of addresses of which I am part of,
the sender gets an error message from PMDF e-Mail Interconnect as follows:


Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:

 Recipient address: fridez(_at_)ubecx01(_dot_)unibe(_dot_)ch
 Original address: pierre(_dot_)fridez(_at_)aiub(_dot_)unibe(_dot_)ch
 Reason: Shell exited with status -1 (Error -1)


I DO receive the message, get no error message whatsoever. The procmail logfil
reports (I set VERBOSE = yes):

procmail: [2217] Wed Jul 14 16:57:42 1999
procmail: No match on "From.*procmail-request"
procmail: No match on "From.*JPL"
procmail: No match on "From.*owner-esonews"
procmail: No match on "Subject.*test"
procmail: Locking "/var/mail/fridez.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/fridez"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/fridez"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/fridez.lock"
From tim(_dot_)springer(_at_)aiub(_dot_)unibe(_dot_)ch  Wed Jul 14 16:57:42 
1999
Subject: IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE
 Folder: /var/mail/fridez                                              1697
procmail: Notified comsat: "fridez(_at_)16691:/var/mail/fridez"
procmail: Unlocking "/u/aiub/fridez/.lockmail"


My .procmailrc file is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Set Procmail VARs
# =================
#
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail    # You'd better make sure it exists
#DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
DEFAULT=/var/mail/fridez
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfil
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
VERBOSE=all
#
## Recipes to sort mails to folders
## --------------------------------
# Procmail mailings
#
:0:
* From.*procmail-request
procmail
#
# jplnews
#
:0:
* From.*JPL
jplnews
#
# eso-news
#
:0:
* From.*owner-esonews
esonews
#


There are several users which use the same procmail at our site (each has a
.forward and a .procmailrc file) and which were part of the mailing list.
Our .procmailrc and .forward files are user readable only (chmod 600).

I am at a loss. I don't see anything wrong with my setup (but I may very well
be wrong!!). And I am not sure if this is a real procmail problem. As far as I
understood (which might not be very much), procmail gets to see a message only
after it has been delivered to my system inbox. This would mean, that the
sending of the message is successfully achieved. How then must the error
message on the SENDER's part be understood? Could this be a timing problem
(e.g. procmail locks the file before delivery is complete) ?

Does anybody out there have an idea into what I should be looking?

Any help comment or idea is greatly appreciated.

Pierre








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CH-3012 BERN


If I remember correctly, the .forward file must be world readable in order
for procmail to use it.  

HTH, 
Shane

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Shane M. Fisher
Student Intern, Administrative Computing Services,
Western Washington University
EMail: fishers(_at_)admcs(_dot_)wwu(_dot_)edu Ext:3362
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