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More "missing first F" problems

2002-03-07 16:25:42
Phillip, is there a specific version of procmail in which this is a known
bug or is known fixed?


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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:22:39 -0500
From: Greg Ward <gward(_at_)mems-exchange(_dot_)org>
To: spamassassin-talk(_at_)lists(_dot_)sourceforge(_dot_)net
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

On 07 March 2002, Daniel Rogers said:
In this case, I wind up with message getting delivered to mailboxes with the
'F' in the 'From ' line missing, which results in the mailboxes becoming
corrupted.

I had a quick look at the spamc source, but no obvious reason for this jumps
out at me.  Anyone else seen this?

I had exactly that problem today, but just using the spamassassin script
-- not running spamd on that machine.  Here's what happened:

  * I added a rule to local.cf, but screwed up, causing
    a Perl syntax error which crashed spamassassin

  * procmail noticed that spamassassin crashed, and "recovered" all
    of my message save that first "F".  The local MTA managed to
    salvage something from that mess and send me a message I could
    deal with.

My procmail log had this in it:

Bareword "JPEG" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 7) line 13.
Bareword "attached" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 7) line 13.
Undefined subroutine &Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus::_body_tests called at /u
sr/local/lib/site_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 907.
procmail: Program failure (70) of "spamassassin"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
 Subject: [... censored ...]
  Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi [...censored...]                        2855

My inclination is to blame procmail; spamassassin just crashed and
that's that [1].  I don't see why it would have consumed one character of my
message and not the rest.

        Greg

[1] although it would be nice if it didn't crash on a syntax error
    in local.cf ... ;-)
-- 
Greg Ward - software developer                gward(_at_)mems-exchange(_dot_)org
MEMS Exchange                            http://www.mems-exchange.org

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