Procmail Version 3.14 was just installed by the admin at our site and when
it is used with my current version of .procmailrc, it gives errors to the
root user complaining about an invalid .procmailrc file. It also doesn't
filter the mail or make any log entries. I've asked the site admin to
recompile it, but he is resisting because he says it compiled without
errors. Our current operating version of procmail is v3.10.
So 2 questions: Is there any known incompatibility between a
v3.10 procmailrc and v3.14?
Any suggestions on what I should do next? Since I'm not seeing any errors
(other than no reaction from procmail) I'm not sure how to go about
troubleshooting where the problem is.
I even tried an abbreviated rc file to see if something in the syntax
could cause such an extreme error. Here's my .forward, rc and an ls to
see if anyone can note what I'm missing. It woould be great if it's
something obvious, but I haven't found anything browsing the man pages,
FAQ or README.
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.forward
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"|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail3.14 #dufeke"
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.procmailrc
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# Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones
# that are not.
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # You'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=/usr/mail/$LOGNAME
LOGFILE=$HOME/from
VERBOSE=on
LINEBUF=4096
# don't allow duplicate email
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
ls -l of /usr/local/bin
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 12 Dec 13 15:14 procmail ->
procmail3.10*
drwxr-xr-x 7 root other 512 Oct 23 1995 procmail-3.10/
drwxr-sr-x 7 28286 adsrs 512 Dec 13 15:47 procmail-3.14/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 87084 Dec 13 16:05 procmail3.10*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 123532 Dec 13 15:47 procmail3.14*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 43960 Dec 13 15:47 formail*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 23284 Dec 13 15:47 lockfile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 5859 Dec 13 15:47 mailstat*
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