on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:47:26PM +0100, marTin insinuated: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.2155 +0100]: > > :0f > > | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin > > rtfm installation and manpage: > > -P Normally SpamAssassin will write the rewritten message > to the mail spool by default. The -P parameter will > cause it to pipe the output to STDOUT instead.
i read that. and removed the -P myself. obviously i just don't understand the workings of these pipes and recipes, and where what goes. - the :0f bit says "Consider the pipe as a filter." - so, on the next line, it is piped to /usr/local/bin/spamassassin. - this processes it. the spamassassin manpage -- which, having rtfmed *before* posting, as i do whenever possible -- told me that which you quoted above. i wanted the spamassassin-processed mail to go into my inbox -- which i assumed to be the mail spool -- and not to STDOUT, at which point i would have had no idea where it would have sent it. i assume from your indignance that STDOUT means it would go straight back into procmail, which would then filter it properly? > so your lost mail will be in /var/mail/nori and this is "the mail spool" referred to above? pardon me; i didn't know. please don't tell me to rtfm when it was a simple terminology confusion fromm *having* rtfmed. </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html