[TriLUG] Mail problems sendmail/procmail/spamassassin

[Joseph Tate]

I got the procmail error to go away.  Turns out that's not what's 
causing mail to bounce.  spamc is not able to communicate with spamd.  I 
did upgrade my kernel/glibc recently.  Maybe it's time to rebuild spamd.

Joseph

Jon Carnes wrote:

>hmmm, check your processes.  Is something holding open the
>/var/log/procmail file?  What happens when you try to open it up and
>write to it using something like vi?
>
>The problem could be in spamc.  Did you change the way it runs?  Did you
>add some other processes to the server?  Is the spamc process running
>out of memory while running?
>
>What happens if you do set the rights: chmod a+w /var/log/procmail
>
>Good Luck 
>On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:46, Joseph Tate wrote:
>  
>
>>df -h:
>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/hda5             9.7G  5.7G  3.4G  63% /
>>/dev/hda1             235M   23M  200M  11% /boot
>>/dev/sda2             7.4G  6.4G  755M  90% /home
>>/dev/hda3            1011M   33M  927M   4% /tmp
>>/dev/hda2             7.8G  4.0G  3.4G  54% /var
>>
>>What permissions are supposed to be on /var/log/procmail .  Isn't that 
>>handled through the ksyslogd daemon?  It's currently only readable by root.
>>
>>Joseph
>>
>>Jon Carnes wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>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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