[Blackholespam-general] Configuration question with installation on Sendmail - Redhat

[<go...@dy...>]

Hello,
        I hate to ask the obvious questions, but I am new to the Blackhole 
filter and have managed to hit a few problems with the installation on 
Redhat Linux running Sendmail. I have created a very simple 
"blackhole.conf" file with the basic configuration options and I have set 
it up to work with a ".forward" file for a specific user in order to test 
the functionality and settings.

First I had set it with the configuration setting so that the "Inbox.Spam" 
and "Inbox.Virus" would be used. I first ran the simple "test_msg_spam" 
and it gave me the following results:

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bash-2.04$ cat test_msg_spam | /usr/blackhole/bin/blackhole -debug
4330: $Id: blackhole.c,v 1.418 2003/01/07 19:45:57 bitbytebit Exp $ 
ERROR(1)!
4330: $Id: blackhole.c,v 1.418 2003/01/07 19:45:57 bitbytebit Exp $ 
ERROR(1)!
3647: $Id: blackhole.c,v 1.418 2003/01/07 19:45:57 bitbytebit Exp $ 
ERROR(1)!
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This is not what I was expecting to see. I had a different result when I 
installed and ran this same test script on another Redhat server. Any 
ideas on the problems?

Then I tried to send an email to this account and I notice that no emails 
are received and that in the /var/log/maillog I see this:

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Jan 27 14:46:38 www sendmail[27321]: h0RJkcU27321: 
from=<go...@dy...>, size=1005, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<OFF...@dy...>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=166.83.95.15.nw.att.net [166.83.95.15]
Jan 27 14:46:38 www BlackHole: gomez DEFER
Jan 27 14:46:38 www sendmail[27322]: h0RJkcU27321: 
to=|/usr/blackhole/bin/blackhole , ctladdr=<go...@gn...> (500/200), 
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30509, dsn=4.0.0, 
stat=Deferred
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I also noticed that the Sendmail Queue looks like this now:
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bash-2.04$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp
/var/spool/mqueue (14 requests)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- 
------------Sender/Recipient------------
h0RJkcU27321 497 Mon Jan 27 14:46 <go...@dy...>
(Deferred)
|/usr/blackhole/bin/blackhole 
h0R00nU24872 497 Sun Jan 26 19:00 <go...@dy...>
(Deferred)
|/usr/blackhole/bin/blackhole 
h0R032U24890 497 Sun Jan 26 19:03 <go...@dy...>
(Deferred)
|/usr/blackhole/bin/blackhole 
h0QNSZU24757 497 Sun Jan 26 18:28 <go...@dy...>
(Deferred)
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Any ideas on what I have set up incorrectly?
        Thanks in advance...
                Javier