[vox-tech] spamassassin + procmail

[ME]

You need to have procmail called per user for delivery.

Two common approaches:
1) Have this done in the server space:
http://www.professional.org/procmail/mailer.html (from a google search)
2) Per client by using .forward to call it

I switched over to use qmail several years ago, so which method is in
common practice for sendmail is not something I know. (I've been using
qmail since before I've been using spamassassin)

Milver S. Nisay said:
> thanks for the reply.
> i have done this and created .procmailrc under /etc/ but when i view the
> maillog, it seems
> that sendmail is not seeing procmail or procmail is not processing the
> file.
>
> below is the contents of .procmailrc under /etc
>
> [root@fpj etc]# cat .procmailrc
> :0 fw
> * < 256000
> | /usr/bin/spamc -f
>
> is there something wrong? any changes with sendmail.mc ?
> please, anyone?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ME" <dugan@passwall.com>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] spamassassin + procmail
>
>
>> Milver S. Nisay said:
>> > hi guys,
>> > i am trying to call a shell script before SENDMAIL will deliver a mail
>> > message,
>> > can it be done using procmail ? if so, any hints?
>> > can anyone advise me on this. thanks in advance.
>> > //milver
>> >
>>
>> This may be of some help. Here is a generic Template with some basic
>> vars
>> as used in a .procmailrc to get you started:
>>
>> (You can see several examples of prgrams being called from the script
>> and
>> you should be able to find a way to work one of these into call a prgram
>> at a specific time in processing of a message.)
>>
>> (If you find you have problems, you can always create a "wrapper" script
>> which includes a "cat" and a subsection which does other things. Then
>> when
>> you pipe things through this script, it spits out what it gets, *and*
>> does
>> your extra "sub commands" when it is called. (one of those interesting
>> tricks I have used.)
>>
>> ----------------cut after this line --------------
>> #Set on when debugging settings
>> VERBOSE=off
>> #How to "run" things we call:
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> #Path for Shell:
>> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>> #Dynamic username loading:
>> USER=`whoami`
>>
>> #If you use "MailDir" format, make sure the path to the mail
>> # storgae ends with a "/"
>> #If you are using mbox, then make sure it sends without a "/"
>>
>> #Your mail directory
>> MAILDIR=/home/${USER}/Maildir
>> #MAILDIR=Maildir/
>> # optional:
>> DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/
>> #recommended:
>> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/LOG
>>
>> # Include user-specific files:
>> #INCLUDERC=/var/whatever/${USER}-spamrc
>>
>> # I have an alias for abuse reports of spam to me:
>> # If "to" a user, put in one folder:
>> :0 H
>> * ^To:.*spam@passwall.com
>> .aSysSpam/
>>
>> # Many ways to do this:
>> # If message size is less than 356kB, then call pipe message through
>> #  program: (SpamAssassin has a feature for this too)
>> :0fw
>> * < 256000
>> |/usr/local/bin/spamc -f
>>
>> # If marked as sam, put in spam maildir:
>> :0 H
>> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>> .SPAM/
>>
>> # Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in
> "From"
>> # to be dropped.  This will re-add it.
>> :0 H
>> * ! ^From[ ]
>> * ^rom[ ]
>> {
>>   LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "
>>
>>   :0 fhw
>>   | sed -e 's/^rom /From /'
>> }
>>
>> #Our default catch-all:
>>
>> :0
>> ${MAILDIR}/
>> --------------------cut above here-----------------
>>
>> HTH,
>> -ME
>>
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