procmail question

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Mon Nov 20 20:52:42 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 07:55 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> I'm running my mail server on FC5. I'm using procmail to filter my kids
> email and I know I had it working at one time. But now when someone
> (that is allowed to send them a message) email them they get a DSN back
> that says:
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|procmail"
>     (reason: Service unavailable)
>     (expanded from: <xxxxx at domain.com>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> smrsh: "procmail" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

In case others run into this. I had to add a symlink
to /usr/bin/procmail in /etc/smrsh. 

# pwd
/etc/smrsh

# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 20 15:39 procmail -> /usr/bin/procmail

James




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