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Re: What is wrong here?

2001-12-28 10:14:42
No, I know it is getting confussing

On the contrary - your logs made it much clearer!

but the failure is at the procmail level.

[*big grin*]
Humour me!

I still claim that procmail is not the problem.

The problem seems to be with the two different domain names that you are
using.  When you use $HOST to set the domain name it works, when you use 
a different variable (such as $MYHOST) or a hard-coded value (such as
"netbros.com") it doesn't work.  And you are now wondering what is
special about $HOST that that is the only one that works.

What is special about $HOST is that it contains a value that the rest of
the system seems to need in order to work.

$HOST contains 'bogart.geeworld.com'

Try using MYHOST again, but this time set it to contain
'bogart.geeworld.com'.  Also try hardcoding 'bogart.geeworld.com'
instead of 'netbros.com'.

I predict that things will work in both those cases.  Something else in
the system - possibly your script, very possibly sendmail - only does
"the right thing" when you use a domain name of 'bogart.geeworld.com'.

Try those, and if it doesn't work as I predict then I will happily eat
my words and accept that procmail might be doing something that I don't
understand. :-)

Martin
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     Addison Wesley             /</    http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk
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