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Re: Corrupt Mail Boxes

2002-08-06 08:26:15
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, James Ervin wrote:

This is REALLY driving me mad now.

I have been getting the classic ^rom (^ denotes start of line and is not
actually a character I am finding in the mail file) at the beginning of a
line in many of my mail boxes.  This is described as a file locking problem
in most of the docs due to the one second delay from writing the "F" and
the "rom".  So I added a lock to the final delivery:

:0:
$DEFAULT

        As first-aid change it, to be:

:0 fhw
| sed '1s/^r*om /From /'

        What is your procmail version?  I resolved it by upgrade to 3.22.

Bye,
 Udi



Which gives me a lock when procmail attempts to deliver the mail at the end
of my recipes (no other recipes deliver mail, they just add headers or
redirect mail off site).  I appear to be getting locking:

procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/james.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/james"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/james"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/spool/mail/james.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "james(_at_)27755249:/var/spool/mail/james"
 From james(_at_)kites(_dot_)org  Tue Aug  6 10:37:48 2002
  Subject: Test Email
   Folder: /var/spool/mail/james

But, I still get several ^rom lines in many mail boxes several times a
week.  This is driving me nuts.  I host mail for several domains and am
facing some angry users who are getting trashed email.

If you can offer any help........thanks.

James Ervin
Kites.Org Webmaster
james(_at_)kites(_dot_)org

www.kites.org


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