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Re: formail troubles

1999-09-27 10:16:32
Matt Dunford <matt(_at_)stary(_dot_)zoomedia(_dot_)com> writes:
My version of procmail is: 
procmail v3.11pre4 1995/10/29 written and created by Stephen R. van den Berg
                                                      <srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl>
Locking strategies:    dotlocking, fcntl()
Default rcfile:                $HOME/.procmailrc
System mailbox:                /var/mail/$LOGNAME

I invoke it through my .forward file:
"| IFS=' ' && exec /usr/contrib/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #matt"


formail is dieing of a segmentation violation while processing the
command line arguments.  This can be seen from the log messages:

        procmail: Program failure (-11) of "formail"
        formail: Couldn't open "....

(An exitcode of -11 means it died by receiving signal 11.  Signal 11 is
SIGSEGV on every system I've ever seen.)

The second of those log messages is immeadiatly followed by a procmail
error message because formail didn't get a chance to print a newline.


I would suggest you a) make sure you're not using a buggy compiler and
you have the latest libc patches or version for your system (the strtol()
from libc may be the cause of the problem), and b) upgrade to version
3.13.1 of procmail, in that order.


Philip Guenther

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