Re: [expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?
As Bryan said, specify a path. You may also like to know that you can make backups of mail with procmail... and commenting the heck out of procmail is good. In fact, I should put more comments in mine. Here's my user-level .procmailrc, in the interest of completeness: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/jack LOGFILE=$HOME/Procmail/log PMSRC=$HOME/Procmail VERBOSE=no LOGABSTRACT=yes LINEBUF=8192 # Create a backup cache of 50 most recent messages in case of mistakes LOGABSTRACT=no :0 c $PMSRC/backupmail :0 ci | cd $PMSRC/backupmail && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,50d` # Anti-spam measures. # SpamAssassin rule # The condition line ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB # (250 * 1024 = 256000 bytes) are processed by SpamAssassin. Most spam # isn't bigger than a few k and working with big messages can bring # SpamAssassin to its knees. # Sourceforge and some other sites have started to run SpamAssassin on # their own mail, so this rule lets us skip re-running it here. :0fw * < 256000 * !^X-Spam-Flag: YES | /usr/bin/spamc # Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with 0.05% # false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's put them in a # safe place, like /dev/null # After a few days, I'm adjusting this down to 10. :0: * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* /dev/null # Sometimes Mickeysoft users will send attachments hidden inside of TNEF files. # This script translates those back to regular MIME attachments. :0fw | /usr/local/bin/tnefclean.pl -f On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 08:58, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:26 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > I just do not ever see messages that pass through spamassassin regardless > > of whether they are spam or not. > > > > My current /etc/procmailrc contains: > > --- > > > > :0: > > > > * ! > > * ! > > * ! > > * <256000 > > > > | spamc -f > > > > > > I would suggest changing this slightly to | /usr/bin/spamc -f instead, make > sure that you are explicitly giving it the command just in case your path > variables aren't set right and it can't find the command or worse, finds the > wrong one. > > Also, is the procmail lockfile working with SpamAssassin. I always get error > messages when SpamAssassin runs as root and Procmail tries to use the default > lockfile, usually I just don't use a lockfile with SA since by the time mail > gets to that, I want it to pass through all remaining recipes. (that would > be the trailing ":" character on the recipe. Mine just shows as: > > :0f > * <256000 > | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:26 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I just do not ever see messages that pass through spamassassin regardless > of whether they are spam or not. > > My current /etc/procmailrc contains: > --- > > :0: > > * ! > * ! > * ! > * <256000 > > | spamc -f > > I would suggest changing this slightly to | /usr/bin/spamc -f instead, make sure that you are explicitly giving it the command just in case your path variables aren't set right and it can't find the command or worse, finds the wrong one. Also, is the procmail lockfile working with SpamAssassin. I always get error messages when SpamAssassin runs as root and Procmail tries to use the default lockfile, usually I just don't use a lockfile with SA since by the time mail gets to that, I want it to pass through all remaining recipes. (that would be the trailing ":" character on the recipe. Mine just shows as: :0f * <256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just do not ever see messages that pass through spamassassin regardless of whether they are spam or not. My current /etc/procmailrc contains: - --- :0: * ! * ! * ! * <256000 | spamc -f - It did have an additional entry that would check the mail headers for "X-Spam-Status: Yes" and pass such messages to /dev/null. I have eliminated it for now on the assumption that for some reason it wasn't work as intended and was passing ALL spamassassin-processed messages to /dev/null. It's removal has changed nothing, however, as I still fail to see any messages that come in and get passed through spamassassin. WHY?! I see, for instance, in my syslog an incoming message getting passed from fetchmail to postfix to procmail to spamd. I see it get assigned a number like 2.5 or - -100.5, etc, but it never arrives in my inbox (kmail) which is polling /var/spool/mail/praedor every couple minutes. Where is the message going? - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion. - --Richard Dawkins Key fingerprint = D6F9 8682 2257 2871 10C6 DB92 6F50 8BBA B100 EB15 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jWcKb1CLurEA6xURAjKgAJ4vNlk0D2VB9Dj7a+tKU+hIehzUtACg0GST W82XyvPjJVt8z4+x1FHRhsU= =3wnx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
