Billy,
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:32:36PM -0400, Billy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm having a problem with Cygwin when using it with procmail.. I've
> written some fairly extensive spam filtering scripts to use on my mail
> server and they work perfectly.. However, I occasionally get these
> error messages and after so many of them, procmail just stops working
> (fortunately, my mail still continues to flow, just doesn't get marked
> with spam headers if it's spam),
How are you driving procmail? Via fetchmail? Or, by some other means?
What version of Windows? What version of procmail (and fetchmail)?
> The error message that comes up is 0xc0000142, and happens with
> procmail.exe, bash.exe and versus other shell commands I use with the
> procmail filters.. I've narrowed it down to a "burst" .. I.E. when a
> large number of emails comes through then it tends to do this, if the
> emails trickle through, it doesn't..
Are the above error messages displayed in a pop-up dialogs? Or, are
they output to the procmail log file? Do you fork a lot in your
procmail recipes? Or, do you perform most of your filtering inside
procmail itself?
> So.. It's very sporadic as to when it happens. I'm using cygwin dll
> version 1.3.2 I've attempted to upgrade and prcomail totally freaked
> out
FWIW, I run procmail-3.22-7 under cygwin-1.3.22-1 at home and
procmail-3.22-8 under cygwin-1.5.5-1 at work without any problems
whatsoever. To give you some idea of the volume and "complexity" of
my home setup:
15K - 20K messages processed per month
550 line .procmailrc file
> and refused to open directories and write files, it even created a
> directory (I turned logging on and it's suppose to create a directory
> when it doesn't exist) with NO permissions, I can't even access it via
> administrator!!
The above is probably ntsec related. Note that cygwin-1.3.2 is very
old! More recent cygwin versions default to ntsec on now.
> Has anyone seen this or know how I can fix this..
Maybe you need to revamp your spam recipes. I'm able to catch 95+
percent of all spam and viruses sent to me with the following recipes
and bogofilter:
#
# File virus messages.
#
MYVIRUS=$MAILDIR/virus-$MONTH
NASTYEXT=(bat|com|exe|hta|pif|scr|shs|vb[se]|ws[fh]|(doc|txt|xls)\.)
INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmailrc-virussnag
#
# Test messages for spam.
#
:0 fw
| bogofilter -u -e -p
#
# File spam messages.
#
:0 W:
* ^X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter
$MAILDIR/spam-$MONTH
The .procmailrc-virussnag file is just Dallman Ross's Virus Snaggers:
http://www.spamless.us/pub/procmail/virussnag.rc
Jason
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