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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Problem with sendmail procmail spamassasin & relay Post 302218330 by era on Friday 25th of July 2008 01:35:29 AM
Old 07-25-2008
The last command is resubmitting the message to Sendmail, so you are creating a mail loop. If you simply remove that last recipe, Procmail should deliver to $DEFAULT (possibly after consulting the user's $HOME/.procmailrc if present).

Oops, wait a minute, the Sendmail voodoo seems like it might be supposed to work that way, actually. Do you see anything in Sendmail's logs for stuff sent to something.procmail? Where did you get those Sendmail rules, anyway? Probably that site should have some documentation and perhaps troubleshooting tips.

(Also notice that -oi is already present in $SENDMAILFLAGS, so you should not add it explicitly. And you might want to remove those live addresses from the log file excerpt before the spammers scrape them.)
Last edited by era; 07-25-2008 at 02:42 AM.. Reason: Refer to whoever created those Sendmail rules ...?
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

praliases

praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - display system mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

DESCRIPTION

       The  praliases  utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
       no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate  key:value  is  displayed	if
       found.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C configfile	Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

       -f aliasfile	Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       key    A specific alias key to look up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful operation.

       >0    An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/mail/aliases	Default sendmail system aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    29 Mar 2004 						      praliases(1)
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