From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: After upgrading to the latest Sendmail RPM (sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.x) on a RedHat 6.2 system, mail sent to users over their quota no longer bounce. I started seeing the following error messages in my maillog instead: stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL Tracked that down to the -t option in procmail, and then went searching through my new sendmail.cf. Sure enough, where my old sendmail.cf had a line like: Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u The new one has: Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u So, is is safe to remove the -t option or does it provide some important functionality that I should leave it on. Also, my sendmail keeps trying to resend these messages. Will it ever give up? (I've got at least one such message that's over four days old). Also, on a related gripe, did the sendmail upgrade announcement mention anything about incompatibility between old cf files and the new binary. At least on my system, relay-based-on-MX stopped working when I restarted the new binary and didn't start working until I built a new cf off the included mc file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pick a mailbox that's over quota 2. Try to send mail to it 3. Look at maillogs and notice you don't get a bounce Expected Results: Unless I'm losing my mind, I should get a bounce when the mailbox is full Additional info:
I had exactly the same problem with 7.0 and also tracked it down to the -t flag for procmail. Has this been fixed for 7.1 and 7.2? I see that 7.1 also uses the -t flag.
I added a comment to the default configuration about this '-t' option of procmail, so that this change is more obvious. I still think this configuration is a good default config and saves some people their email. cu, Florian La Roche