From: /dev/rob0 (rob0gmx.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 11:57:47 CDT

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On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:36, Matt Juszczak wrote:
> My machine keeps dieing when I have mailbox_command=<procmail binary

I used to do that, but since I am the only user who needed it I
commented that out. I did use it for many years without trouble, and I
still use procmail by means of ~/.forward.

> here> configured. It hard locks up and I even have to end up
> regenerating the postfix queues (postsuper -s doesn't work).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any bugs in procmail?

There are bugs in everything, but you provided no information. Maybe
it's a known issue with your OS? Did you do any testing or research?

I migrated from procmail-to-mbox (as LDA) to procmail-to-Maildir
(via .forward) recently. In so doing I had cause to look into the
procmail source code. I noticed that there are sendmail references
(such as to the sendmail.cf) which are hard-coded into procmail.

In fact that was why I commented out the mailbox_command line. But
despite its age and apparent lack of maintenance, procmail 3.15.2 still
does what I need it to do.

> Is there something else my system is doing with procmail to keep it
> from running?

Yes, good starting question. Now develop and test some hypotheses.
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