solved, was Re: arrgh! "smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use procmail -f-"

[Max Blanco]

I spent oodles of time to fix this beautiful undocumented ... (can anyone 
think of a synonym for "feature" which begins with a "g"??)

When debian installs procmail over sendmail, it does not:
* add "MAILER(procmail)dnl" to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
* ln -s /usr/bin/procmail /usr/lib/sm.bin
* run /usr/share/sendmail/update_smrsh
* run sendmailconfig

(probably plus some others that I forget...)

How on earth I found this one out remains a mystery to me.

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Max Blanco wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm attempting to use procmail.  As you can see below, I use sendmail 
> restricted shell (smrsh).  My log file /var/log/mail.log says:
> "smrsh: uid 1000: attempt to use procmail -f-"
> and then
> "return to sender: Service unavailable" 
> 
> What is the problem here?  I'm using debian woody on powerpc.
> I have placed procmail in /usr/lib/smrsh, with proper permissions.
> 
> tia,
> max.
> 
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