Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
NOTE I just realized I used "consecutive" a couple times in my previous posts, whereas I did mean to say "concurrent". Bad, bad screw up. Sorry for any confusion caused. On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:57 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:36:29PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelm

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT] - Back On-Topic (Almost!)

2008-01-31 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Arthur Dent wrote: http://www.issociate.de/board/post/232336/Lock_failure_on_%22spamc.lock%22.html and http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#SA which tend to suggest that one should NOT put a lock on for SA processing... A lock file is not *needed* for spamc (or

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT] - Back On-Topic (Almost!)

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:18:38PM +, Arthur Dent wrote: I've just been doing a little reading.. > > > # Spam filter > > > > > > :0fw > > > * < 256000 > > > | /usr/bin/spamc --username=mark > > > > If there is even the slightest chance, your MTA might flood your MDA > > with mail during a p

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:48:20PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > Since I was about to hit the send button on this one, here is a shorter > version of my original thoughts. Partially on-topic (yay!) again. ;) Oops - I was busy replying to your last message and didn't see this one come in...

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:36:29PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man > > procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to be a > > delivery action and

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Since I was about to hit the send button on this one, here is a shorter version of my original thoughts. Partially on-topic (yay!) again. ;) > Fantastic! This worked perfectly "out of the box"! (just edited mydomain). Good. :) > Thank you Guenther! > > When I moved it from my test rig to the l

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man > procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to be a > delivery action and therefore does not need a lock. Uhm, where did you read that? Clearly, eve

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to be a delivery action and therefore does not need a lock. Removing the lock from my backup copy solves the problem. I just want to thank everyone for their pati

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:56:49PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:12 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:22:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Sorry Chaps, I had no idea this topic would grow so much. > > > Do file-locking, when delivering

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread mouss
jp wrote: Another option, if you are using postfix, is to setup mydomain.com as a virtual. Then in /etc/postfix/virtuals, you can mydomain.com virtual @mydomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... You can ommit the wildcar

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread jp
Another option, if you are using postfix, is to setup mydomain.com as a virtual. Then in /etc/postfix/virtuals, you can mydomain.com virtual @mydomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... You can ommit the wildcard one if you

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
Larry Nedry wrote: On 1/30/08 at 3:20 PM + Arthur Dent wrote: I am so pleased with this rule that I decided to give my poor old SA a well-deserved rest from this rubbish and take these spams out at Procmail time. Keep in mind that there are a lot of mobile phones out there that hav

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Larry Nedry
On 1/30/08 at 3:20 PM + Arthur Dent wrote: >I am so pleased with this rule that I decided to give my poor old SA a >well-deserved rest from this rubbish and take these spams out at Procmail >time. Keep in mind that there are a lot of mobile phones out there that have email addresses that begin

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Please forgive me for consuming off-topic bandwith with this question but I don't really want to subscribe to the Procmail list for what is, I hope, a very simple question. I get a lot of spam that has a series of numbers in the "To" address, either in the form To:

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:12 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:22:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > :0 : > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > spam/to-numerical > > Brilliant! It works! Thank you so much Guenther (and others who have replied > off-list to help me with this). >

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:22:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:20 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > The // are matched literally, they are not used as an RE delimiter. The > entire string after the asterisk is a regex anyway. Lose the slashes. > > Procmail does not kn

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:20 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > Please forgive me for consuming off-topic bandwith with this question but I > don't really want to subscribe to the Procmail list for what is, I hope, a > very simple question. > > I get a lot of spam that has a series of numbers in the "To"

Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Please forgive me for consuming off-topic bandwith with this question but I don't really want to subscribe to the Procmail list for what is, I hope, a very simple question. I get a lot of spam that has a series of numbers in the "To" address, either in the form To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or