[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Tue Oct 22 13:34:36 EDT 2002


df -h

Could you be out of space? If not, then a rights issue perhaps?

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:11, Joseph Tate 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
> 





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