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Re: sendmail bug?



On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:12:25 -0700 David Stern writes:

> I believe the procmail directive above is from root's .forward file,
> but how the message lands in /var/spool/mail/daemon remains a
> mystery.  (nitro==mybox)
> 
>   ------/var/spool/mail/daemon-----
>   From dstern@u.washington.edu  Mon Aug 24 12:55:12 1998
>   Received: from nitro.net (dstern@nitro.net [127.0.0.1])
>   	by nitro.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA26499
>   	for <root@nitro.net>; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:55:06 -0700
>   Message-Id: <199808241955.MAA26499@nitro.net>
>   X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) 
>   To: root@nitro.net
>   Mime-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>   Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:55:05 -0700
>   From: David Stern <dstern@u.washington.edu>
>   ----------------------------------
> 
> See, it's to root, but daemon got it.  What the ..

Check root's .procmailrc file.  You could also try running feeding a
mail to root using procmail as filter and watching it with strace (you
will need to be root to do that).  Check what files procmail is
reading.

	Torsten


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