[TriLUG] Re: sendmail, procmail, and damaged 'from ' lines in mbox files

[Morbus Iff]

 >i've just discovered that *something* appears to be occasionally
 >damaging my mbox inbox (/var/spool/mail/$USER) on my server.
 >procmail is my local delivery agent, and so all the messages
 >get their 'From ' lines rewritten to 'From coar  <date>'.
 >
 >however, i've just noticed that sometimes this is truncated to
 >'rom coar  <date>' -- i.e., the leading 'F' gets gobbled somehow.

I have heard this, yes, most noticeably with something related to 
SpamAssassin, I believe. Something about SA rewriting the From:
and then Procmail rewriting it again. I think. Lemme poke
for a second, mmkay.

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Yeah, take a look here:

   http://spamassassin.org/dist/procmailrc.example

where it remarks: "Work around procmail bug: any output on stderrwill cause 
the "F" in "From" to be dropped.  This will re-add it.". There's a rule 
directly below it to re-add it.


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