Bug 79608

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Description of problem:
I'm having a strange problem with Procmail on Red Hat Linux 8.0.  I
recently migrated my e-mail services from a Red Hat 7.3 system to a Red
Hat 8.0 system, and everything but procmail survived the transition.

In a nutshell:  My procmail log shows that procmail is aware of the
incoming messages, and it appears that it's actually processing them.
However, no matter what I try I can't get procmail to actually recognize that
many of these messages do indeed match rules in my .procmailrc.

Here's my ~/.procmailrc:

[...begin quote of procmailrc...]
SHELL=/bin/sh
LOGFILE=logs/procmail
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all

:0c:
mail-backup

:0ic
| cd mail-backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `/bin/ls -t msg.* | /bin/sed -e 1,128d`

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin

:0:
* ^Subject: Test grobblefruit
testing

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Flag.*YES
mail/spam

:0:
* ^TO_rt-users@lists\.fsck\.com
mail/rt-users

:0:
* ^TO_outlook-users@yahoogroups\.com
mail/outlook-users

:0:
* ^TO_procmail@Lists\.RWTH-Aachen\.DE
mail/procmail-list

:0:
* ^TO_openldap-software@OpenLDAP\.org
mail/openldap-software
[...end quote of procmailrc...]


Here's the procmail log entry from a recent message I got which should have been
handled by the relevant procmail rule:


[...begin quote of procmail log...]
procmail: [17472] Fri Dec 13 14:45:27 2002
procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all"
procmail: Locking "mail-backup.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=mail-backup/msg.3k2L"
procmail: Opening "mail-backup/msg.3k2L"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
From graham  Fri Dec 13 14:45:27 2002
 Subject: Test grobblefruit
  Folder: mail-backup/msg.3k2L                                              885
procmail: Unlocking "mail-backup.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= cd mail-backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `/bin/ls -t
msg.* | /bin/sed -e 1,128d`"
From graham  Fri Dec 13 14:45:27 2002
 Subject: Test grobblefruit
  Folder:  cd mail-backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `/bin/ls -t msg.* | /bin      885
procmail: Executing " cd mail-backup && /bin/rm -f dummy `/bin/ls -t msg.* |
/bin/sed -e 1,128d`"
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
procmail: No match on "^Subject: Test grobblefruit"
procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Flag.*YES"
procmail: No match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)rt-users@lists\.fsck\.com"
procmail: No match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)outlook-users@yahoogroups\.com"
procmail: No match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)procmail@Lists\.RWTH-Aachen\.DE"
procmail: No match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)openldap-software@OpenLDAP\.org"
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/graham.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/graham"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/graham"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/spool/mail/graham.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "graham@8765678:/var/spool/mail/graham"
  Folder: /var/spool/mail/graham                                              1
[...end quote of procmail log...]


This same "No match on [rule]" behaviour happens with every other message which
should otherwise match a rule in my procmailrc.

I'm using the 'procmail-3.22-7' RPM as distributed by Red Hat with RH
version 8.0.  As the RPM package name implies, it's procmail v3.22r7,
which looks to me to be the current version available from procmail.org.

I've only been editing my .procmailrc with vim and pico via the shell, so I
don't think linebreaks are a problem.  Just for kicks, I copy & pasted the
contents of my .procmailrc to a new iteration of the same file, using only vi on
the local shell, so as to remove any possible linebreak problems.  As I
expected, no linebreak problems existed and so this approach solved nothing.

An earlier version of my procmailrc *did* work on Red Hat 7.3 (with the Red
Hat-distributed 'procmail-3.22-5' RPM), and the only reason I've changed the
procmailrc since then is because it stopped working when I moved to RH 8.0.

I've communicated with folks on the Procmail Users list at
'procmail.DE', at least one of whom has reported using my same
.procmailrc with success on a non-Red Hat 8 system.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ensure that the 'sendmail-8.12.5-7', 'procmail-3.22-7', and related packages
are installed on your Red Hat 8 system
2. create a valid ~/.procmailrc
3. receive e-mail which ought to match a rule in your .procmailrc


Actual Results:  E-mail is reported by procmail to have been received and
examined, but no procmail rules are actually matched.

Expected Results:  Properly-constructed rules should trigger a match on
appropriate incoming messages.

Additional info: