[vox-tech] spamassassin + procmail

[Milver S. Nisay]

Yes, I got it working now, the file should be as procmailrc and not
.procmailrc under RH9, it just popout of my mind, dont know where did i get
that.

and regardless of FROM header emails, the email is being scanned by
spamassassin using spamc...
thanks a lot!

till next time,
//milver
----- Original Message -----
From: "ME" <dugan@passwall.com>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] spamassassin + procmail


> 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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