[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

[Stephen Schaefer]

What are the contents of /var/log/procmail?  Does that
file exist?  If not, try creating it and make sure
that the procmail process has permission to write it.

    - Stephen

--- Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com> wrote:
> I've set up spamassassin as per the spamassassin
> howto, and added a 
> procmail rule to filter spam to a separate IMAP
> folder.  It was all 
> working nicely, but today, it's ceased to function. 
> It's a 
> "non-parrot".  Now it's all mail.  The bounced
> message states:
> 
> The original message was received at Tue, 22 Oct
> 2002 13:09:02 -0400
> from mail2.mi-corporation.com [209.116.71.23]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
> errors -----
> <jtate at dragonstrider.com>
>     (reason: service unavailable)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> procmail: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"
> procmail: Program failure (69) of "/usr/bin/spamc"
> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  I've never used procmail before. 
> /var/log/maillog has 288 
> 'procmail[5969]: Error while writing to
> "/var/log/procmail"' messages, 
> which I feel are related.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 
> System: RH 7.3 all updates installed.
> 
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