Hi,

I am getting bounces to one of my accounts on my personal server from an
account that is forwarding mail. I administrate the entire server.


I am not invoking spamc or spamassassin system-wide nor by my account.

I am running postfix+amavisd+spamassassin to catch spam.

the system wide procmailrc looks like this
$ cat /etc/procmailrc
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
#Uncomment below for troubleshooting
VERBOSE=YES
LOGABSTRACT=YES

I just turned on logrotate for the log file

ls -l /var/log/procmail.log
-rw------- 1 root mail 33821491 Nov 2 23:11 /var/log/procmail.log


After search the /var/log/procmail.log file I was unable to find a
corresponding error message nor was I able to find a log for the message
that was attempted delivery. Does anybody have ideas about what else to
check please?



Here is my users' ~/.procmailrc

$ cat .procmailrc
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
HOME=/home/<username>
MAILIN=$HOME/mail
DEFAULT=/var/mail/<username>
#MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
#LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
LOCKFILE=/var/mail/<username>.lock
NULL=/dev/null



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On 11/02/2011 11:27 PM, Noah wrote:


I am getting bounces to one of my accounts on my personal server from an
account that is forwarding mail.


if I read this statement correctly, it sounds like some spammers are
using your email addy as a fake 'From:' and the bounces are backscatter.
If that is the xase, theres not much you can do - it should go away
within a week since spammers don't use the address for that long.


Don't think this is a linux problem.



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On 11/3/11 7:04 AM, Jeff G. wrote:

On 11/02/2011 11:27 PM, Noah wrote:


I am getting bounces to one of my accounts on my personal server from an
account that is forwarding mail.


if I read this statement correctly, it sounds like some spammers are
using your email addy as a fake 'From:' and the bounces are backscatter.
If that is the xase, theres not much you can do - it should go away
within a week since spammers don't use the address for that long.

Don't think this is a linux problem.





Jeff,

I must not be wording the problem very well. Also I can see the bounce
claiming "Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/procmail"" back to my
secondary account is originating from my machine by looking directly at
the SMTP header. there is absolutely no spammers and spam email
involved in this situation.


and there is a corresponding (Command time limit exceeded:
"/usr/bin/procmail") log entry in /var/log/mail.log


so what can I do to circumvent procmail from claiming a time out. is
there a global server setting I can configure?


Cheers,

Noah

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