probable procmail problem

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2 total messages Started by Richard Kooijman Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:11

#3230

Author: Richard Kooijman
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:11

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Hi,

Until recently I was the only one using procmail on our system. Last week
my colleague also started using procmail and that's when the problems
started.

We have difficulties receiving mail from mailing lists we are both on.
For example, we are both on a staff and develop mailing list, both locally.
These used to work perfectly.

It seems from the /var/log/syslog that only one of us is getting mail and
that is indeed what is happening in reality.


Does anybody have a clue here what is going wrong?




Richard.

Re: probable procmail problem

#3239

Author: Stephen R. van den Berg
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:04

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>Until recently I was the only one using procmail on our system. Last week
>my colleague also started using procmail and that's when the problems
>started.

>We have difficulties receiving mail from mailing lists we are both on.
>For example, we are both on a staff and develop mailing list, both locally.
>These used to work perfectly.

>It seems from the /var/log/syslog that only one of us is getting mail and
>that is indeed what is happening in reality.

You probably have a (very) old version of procmail, it still contains
the insufficient recommendation that you use:

"IIFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"

as the contents of your .forward file.

This tends to confuse sendmail (clearly a bug in sendmail) when multiple
users use this as their .forward file contents.  The new & improved
recommendation looks like:

"|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #YOUR_LOGIN_NAME"

Of course, substitute your, resp. your friend's username for YOUR_LOGIN_NAME.
*Don't* omit the '#'.

P.S. I can unofficially announce that there exists a procmail mailinglist.
     It will be officially announced when v2.80 of procmail is released.

     For people that want to get on it now, subscription requests to:

	procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
-- 
Sincerely,                                  berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).    berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de

"I have a *cunning* plan!"

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