I believe this is a result of calling procmail from within procmail. Current distributions of sendmail are configured for procmail to be used as the default delivery agent. Adding a call to procmail in your .forward file, which has already been read by procmail, just means that procmail gets called again, rereads your .forward, calls procmail again, rereads your .forward...etc, etc.
Rename your .forward file so that it doesn't get read/processed, and see if it helps. On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Tomki wrote: > I'm having a pretty bad mail loop problem, which appears rooted in the > .forward procmail spamc setup. It's an occasional problem, but when it > happens it's bad. I don't know what kicks it off, but I have to manually > intervene to break a mail loop in my server systems. > > Here's a message I find in the failed messages: > > procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamc" > procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded > 554 5.3.0 Internal error > procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamc" > procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded > 554 5.3.0 Internal error > > Reporting-MTA: dns; lonestar.alink.net > Received-From-MTA: DNS; spoon.sv-server1.alink.net > Arrival-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:02:33 -0700 (PDT) > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |IFS=' ' && exec /bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user > Action: failed > Status: 5.5.0 > Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 70 > Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:02:36 -0700 (PDT) > > When this occurs, the chain simply feeds upon itself, until I get the > notification and have to kill sendmail on the destination server, and clean > the queues on queuing systems. > Is there anything known about this problem? After I clean the queues and > restart the spamd/sendmail system, everything is fine.. but I thought so > the first time this happened, also. > I'm running Spamassassin 2.50-cvs. First time the problem occurred I did > temporarily switch back to 2.41, but it didn't seem to help. > Sendmail is 8.12.5. > > Thanks for any help. > > ---Tomki > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
