Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
hi ( 04.11.03 21:29 -0800 ) Ranga Nathan: Needless to say 99% is spam! I have some 28MB worth of mail sitting somewhere, waiting to be delivered. I want that 28MB mail to be filtered and forwarded to my cox.net address. so 28MB * 0.99 = 27.72MB of SPAM, 0.28MB of HAM let's say the average mail is 3KB [conservative estimate] 280KB / 3KB = 93.3 mails hmm ... 93 mails was more than i was anticipating, but i still think you should just throw them all away. how many times do you get an opportunity like this where you can lose mail with a plausable technical explanation? i mean, usually, you can just say- 'o, it must have gotten eaten by my filter' or 'i must have deleted it accidentally when i was cleaning out my inbox'. -- \js oblique strategy: change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:29:02PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote: I want to filter my mail from sendmail through SpamAssassin but redirect to my cox.net address. I understand that SpamAssassin requires filtering via procmail. SpamAssassin does *not* require procmail. You are using procmail here as a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA). So I set up /etc/.procmailrc to say: DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc Now you need to forward :0 ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then brought up the /usr/bin/spamc daemon. What do I have to tell Sendmail to filter this 28MB of mail through procmail, and then forward only non-SPAM mail to my cox.net address? This depends on where the mail is stored. If it is still in the sendmail mail queue (doubtful), you invoke sendmail to deliver it, I stopped using sendmail years ago, so I can't help there. If it has already been delivered, then you have to invoke procmail manually. Note that in that instance, it may be wise to rename the mail file first. formail -s procmail /mail/file -Gyepi ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
DA == Daniel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DA formail -s command splits standard-input into valid messages and DA executes command on each. DA procmail -m conf-file runs procmail for a nonstandard conf file. DA So for your procmailrc in the nonstandard location of DA /etc/.procmailrc, you'd want: DA cat bigfileofspamandham | formail -s 'procmail -m /etc/.procmailrc' useless use of cat. formail -s 'procmail -m /etc/.procmailrc' bigfileofspamandham uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs http://jobs.perl.org ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Uri Guttman wrote: useless use of cat. formail -s 'procmail -m /etc/.procmailrc' bigfileofspamandham different strokes. by the same measure, it's a useless pipeline, plus the single-quotes are superfluous. but the added clarity (to me) is worth the extra characters, and the slowest part is most definitely not the cat or the pipe, it's procmail. -- http://kw.pm.org/ - Kitchener-Waterloo Perl Mongers - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://coder.com/ - Prescient Code Solutions - (519) 575-3733 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs http://jobs.perl.org ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
Not sure how you could get sendmail to do it, but with perl you could probably do it in about 20-50 lines. Just pull the messages one by one, if spamc exits 0, send it along. On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:29:02PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote: I want to filter my mail from sendmail through SpamAssassin but redirect to my cox.net address. Using Sendmail, I used to redirect all my mail to my cox.net address. Needless to say 99% is spam! Since I stopped redirecting, I have some 28MB worth of mail sitting somewhere, waiting to be delivered. I want that 28MB mail to be filtered and forwarded to my cox.net address. I understand that SpamAssassin requires filtering via procmail. So I set up /etc/.procmailrc to say: DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc and then brought up the /usr/bin/spamc daemon. What do I have to tell Sendmail to filter this 28MB of mail through procmail, and then forward only non-SPAM mail to my cox.net address? No matter what I do, I have to filter the existing 28MB of mail before doing anything else. Can someone help this idiot? Thanks __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- www.suave.net - Anthony Ball - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSB - http://rivendell.suave.net/Beer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn -- Wakko ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:08:56AM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: Not sure how you could get sendmail to do it, but with perl you could probably do it in about 20-50 lines. Just pull the messages one by one, if spamc exits 0, send it along. If you already have all of this mail rattling around, then use 'formail' to cause it to be re-delivered. This is part of the procmail distribution. -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] OT - A SpamAssassin question
If you already have all of this mail rattling around, then use 'formail' to cause it to be re-delivered. Technically, using formail for mail that's already rattling around is just processing, not delivery. Only the MTA can deliver mail, perhaps by using an external MDA. The distinction becomes very important if you re-inject previously delivered messages back to the MTA: many will balk and bounce them. Pedantry makes few friends, but the point must be made nonetheless ;) -Gyepi ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
