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procmail suid and sendmail

2003-04-04 06:42:03
I have a couple of questions. First, why is it a good idea to install
procmail suid?  Isn't this more of a security risk?

Second, we have the latest sendmail installed sgid with procmail as the
LDA and a systemwide procmailrc everyone runs.  Periodically, I see messages:

   timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input

I'm told I should look at whether the LDA (procmail) is generating too much
output for sendmail. How can I check this? How can I throttle it back if it
is a problem?

Related to this, I'm running an older version of procmail, perhaps upgrading
to 3.22 might solve it?

Thanks




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 David Stern                                            University of Maryland
                Institute for Advanced Computer Studies


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