On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Andrew Shipton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:53:35PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Has anyone ever seen this behaviour in sendmail 8.11.6? > > > > When the sendmail daemon receives an email for sending to a local mailbox > > it appends the email to the end of the user's file OK, but removes the > > leading "F" in the envelope line so that instead of reading: > > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 1 15:07:18 2002 > > it reads: > > rom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 1 15:07:18 2002 > > This is probably a local delivery issue. I assume you're using procmail > as your local delivery agent. > > If the mailbox isn't locked properly, then procmail has the chance of > corrupting the mailbox. This is generally seen as one message starting > with "FFrom ", and the next with "rom ".
It's certainly seems to be a procmail problem and I have found a kludge to fix it, but it is very strange that it is only occuring at one of my sites out of many. > > Searching out with google turns up this page - > http://lib.natur.cuni.cz/komanek/webland/html/unix/procmail.html . > Ignore the start (in Czech), and see the bottom parts for details. > > Hope this helps, > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
