If this were the issue wouldn't I have the problem at hand constantly, 
instead of randomly as I appear to?  For instance, I didn't change any 
configurations at all after my problem this morning, I just cleaned the 
queues and restarted spamd/sendmail.

At 14:06 09/29/2002 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:47:41AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> > 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.
>
>Well, procmail doesn't read .forward, sendmail does.  So sendmail reads
>the .forward, bypassing the configured LDA.  If that has a problem and
>bounces though, it'll be bounced to the postmaster (the user probably),
>which gets in the loop.
>
> > Rename your .forward file so that it doesn't get read/processed, and see
> > if it helps.
>
>I would agree that if procmail is already the LDA (look for ^Mlocal
>in sendmail.cf, and check for the procmail path) you should get rid of
>the .forward.
>
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