Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!andrew From: andrew@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Problems with filter Message-ID: <4002@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 5 Feb 91 22:59:05 GMT References: Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Andrew Macpherson" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 33 In the referenced article tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes: | In this case, as usually, sendmail spools the mail in | /usr/spool/mqueue and tries to process it later. **BUT** then, the | mail never gets filtered : all I get is a .filter-errors file in | /usr/spool/mqueue (!!!!) with the following content : | | filter (paris): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | filter (weinh): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | filter (wrobel): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | filter (giese): Couldn't read user filter rules file! | | Note that these are always local users trying to reach me via mail. I | noted this problem only recently, because | | 1) somebody told me he sent me a mail I never got | 2) fortunately, it does not happen that often that our convex is so | loaded that sendmail rejects local mail. | | Does somebody have an explanation and/or a cure for this quite | annoying problem (it means in fact that I have lost the corresponding | mails, doesn't it ?) This is a `well known bug' in older versions of sendmail. The job of delivering through the filter program had been identified, but the userid under which this job was to be run was not stored. A patched version is available, and it may be that the current release incorporates this fix. If you can't find/are not offered one, I may be able to help -- Andrew.Macpherson@stl.stc.co.uk -- PSI%234237100122::Andrew.Macpherson "There is nothing quite so worthwhile as simply messing about in boats"