because you had the band-aid applied already
/etc/procmailrc is a band-aid
I assume it works. I have propely working systems, and so i can't test
this at the moment.
(Well I'm tired and don't want to either)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.com>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:04 PM
Subject: [coba-e:11511] Re: What really happeded to the mail
> How did I escape this? My BQ server had the /etc/procmailrc already on it
> and my mail wasn't disturbed at all. How did I not get hit with this?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zeffie [mailto:bluequartzlist (at mark) hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 8:54 PM
>> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
>> Subject: [coba-e:11506] What really happeded to the mail
>>
>> As some of you might of noticed during the huge centos update, Mail
>> stopped
>> working... actually it was still working but just going into
>> /var/spool/mail
>> instead of the users mbox as expected. This was caused purely by the
>> procmail update. The version of procmail that BQ uses is patched to use
>> the
>> mbox in the users directory. This is done for several good reasons I
>> won't
>> go into here... anyway..
>>
>> When the standard Redhat/centos build is installed it's not patched to
>> use
>> a
>> mbox in the users directory... simple as that...
>>
>> This is the orig BQ patch...
>> [root (at mark) filter redhat]# cat SOURCES/procmail-3.22-bluequartz.patch
>> diff -uNr procmail-3.22.orig/src/authenticate.c
>> procmail-3.22/src/authenticate.c
>> --- procmail-3.22.orig/src/authenticate.c 2001-06-29
>> 11:20:36.000000000 +0900
>> +++ procmail-3.22/src/authenticate.c 2004-03-20 18:04:37.000000000
>> +0900
>> @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
>> #ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
>> #define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to
>> /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar
>> */
>> #endif
>> -/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the
>> leading
>> /
>> */
>> - /* delivers to
>> $HOME/.mail
>> */
>> +#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/mbox" /* watch the leading /
>> */
>> + /* delivers to
>> $HOME/mbox
>> */
>> #define STRLEN(x) (sizeof(x)-1)
>>
>> While the idea of using the /etc/procmailrc file is very creative, But
>> IMHO
>> it's a bad idea. It means that every email that goes through the server
>> has
>> to use that file. I'd almost want that file to be a daemon :) but it's
>> not... but hec these days, procmail almost needs to become a daemon...
>> The
>> /etc/procmailrc file is not included in the procmail rpm and if it was it
>> would surely be marked "config/noreplace". honestly I don't know why you
>> folks have a procmailrc file anyway? I just tested it again without the
>> procmailrc file and it works just fine...
>>
>> Now that's what broke the mail... Keep in mind though that it's
>> actually
>> only a symptom of another problem that's in the forge now.
>>
>> Fast solution
>> rpm -Uvh --force
>> http://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/5100R/CentOS4/bluequartz/i386/RPMS/pr
>> ocmail-3.22-14BQ2.i386.rpm
>> (it wasn't a security update. it was a maximum letter size update) -
>> added
>> large file support (#228487)
>>
>> Better Solution..
>> http://www.bqforge.com/
>> Because there are other things like this and several other problems with
>> the
>> current system that are fixed here!
>>
>> PS. I'll have tell you about httpd another time...
>>
>> --
>> Zeffie...
>> http://www.zeffie.com/
>> Now I build it and You surf it!
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