serious trouble with exim and procmail

["as@cynox.ch" <as@cynox.ch>]

Hello everybody,

I am having serious trouble with exim and procmail.
procmail 3.21.20011028
exim 3.32-2
Both packages are from testing.

The mail get's passed to exim, and here's what it's got to say. I am trying to send a mail to myself (asuzuki@localhost).

This is the telnet session

asuzuki@tulkas:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 tulkas.suzuki.home ESMTP Exim 3.32 #1 Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:05:20 +0100
helo tulkas
250 tulkas.suzuki.home Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
mail from:asuzuki@localhost
250 <asuzuki@localhost> is syntactically correct
rcpt to:asuzuki@localhost
250 <asuzuki@localhost> is syntactically correct
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Subject: This is a test message

Test message
250 OK id=169syi-0000TS-00
quit
221 tulkas.suzuki.home closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

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And this is what the log file says:

2001-11-30 20:05:50 169syi-0000TS-00 <= asuzuki@localhost H=localhost (tulkas) [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=351
2001-11-30 20:05:50 169syi-0000TS-00 == ¦/usr/bin/procmail@tulkas.suzuki.home <asuzuki@localhost> D=procmail defer (-1): file existence defer in procmail director: file name for existence test is not fully qualified: \246/usr/bin/procmail
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What is going on? I checked out the lines in exim.conf concerning procmail, I recreated the configuration file with eximconfig, I didn't touch the config!

--exim.conf
# This transport is used for procmail

procmail_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}"
  return_path_add
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
  check_string = "From "
  escape_string = ">From "
  user = $local_part
  group = mail

# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file

procmail:
  driver = localuser
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
  no_verify

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Please, somebody help me! I am becoming crazy! Oh, and please CC any replies to my emailaddress as@cynox.ch, I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks.

Alex


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