I have had a very similar problem, Odhiambo.
I've reported it here twice already, but nobody has been able to help me
find the problem.
I encountered the same issue on my mailserver this morning, and incurred a
mail loop that sent about 3000 messages to postmaster@ my domain.
The symptom that makes me think we're having the same problem: the exit
code '70'.
Here is an excerpt from one of the double-bounce messages:
------------------------message excerpt begin -----------------------
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user"
(reason: Internal error)
(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
"|IFS=' ' && exec /bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user"
(reason: Internal error)
(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
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: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
---------------------------------message excerpt
end----------------------------
and here is the point that the failure occurred, as logged:
Oct 11 07:30:14 lonestar sm-mta[37118]: g9BEUBUR037080: to="|IFS=' ' &&
exec /bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user", ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(1024/1024), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=151360,
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Oct 11 07:30:14 lonestar sm-mta[37123]: g9BEUBUR037081: to="|IFS=' ' &&
exec /bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user", ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(1007/1007), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, pri=121128,
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Oct 11 07:30:14 lonestar spamc[37154]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1
failed, retrying (1/3): Connection refused
Oct 11 07:30:14 lonestar spamc[37157]: connect() to spamd at 127.0.0.1
failed, retrying (1/3): Connection refused
It appears that this failure sends an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is actually an alias to 3 separate system
admins here, whose ending account targets are on the afflicted
server. :-p So the cycle continues, because each of THOSE emails ALSO
generate failure messages to postmaster.. so the cycle continues.
"We don't die, we MULTIPLY!!".. so I can fix that looping bit by taking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] into its own mailbox, but it still doesn't
tell me what the root problem is: spamd dies occassionally. :-p
Does anyone have any ideas about this yet?
I'm currently running SA 2.42 release, Sendmail 8.12.5. Procmail 3.22
Thanks
--Tomki
At 09:45 10/11/2002 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>I am trying to upgrade to 2.42, not for any any good reason than putting
>a smile on the face of my Japanese/Korean clients since 2.31 really hates
>their encoding.
>
>PROBLEM 1:
>
>When I install 2.31, I have these files in /usr/bin
>
>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18751 Oct 8 17:30 /usr/bin/spamassassin
>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13372 Oct 8 17:30 /usr/bin/spamc
>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27290 Oct 8 17:30 /usr/bin/spamd
>-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14723 Oct 8 17:30 /usr/bin/spamproxyd
>
>When I install 2.42 (by whichever means) I do not see spamproxyd in
>the bin directory. Is there a good explanation for this? I believe
>it was removed from the distro, yes? Do I still need it for smooth
>operation?
>
>
>
>PROBLEM 2:
>
>Once I install 2.42 and start spamd, mail delivery failures begin.
>A sample error I get is this:
>
>2002-10-11 09:29:55 17ztJ1-0000UO-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=procmail T=procmail_pipe: Child process
>of procmail_pipe transport returned 70 (could mean internal software
>error) from command: /usr/local/bin/procmail
>2002-10-11 09:29:56 7 args: /usr/local/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <>
>-E17ztJ1-0000UO-00
>2002-10-11 09:29:56 17ztIz-0000Rk-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=procmail
>T=procmail_pipe: Child process of procmail_pipe transport returned 70
>(could mean internal software error) from command: /usr/local/bin/procmail
>
>
>This does not happen with 2.31. Any pointers??
>
>
>
>
>
>-Wash
>
>--
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>GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-)
>
>
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> -- Maslow
>
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