Hi, > If I put a spamc (or spamassasin) call in /etc/procmailrc (and > procmail is my MDA in sendmail), will SA look for user confs based on > the intended recipient? I think the answer is no, but I want to be > sure. Unless you DROPPRIV=yes or you use -u $LOGNAME, it will not use the user preferences. See also the options to run spamd, I think -x should turn off per_user config files.
> In order to test that things are working OK without munging anyone's > mail, I decided to create a procmail recipe for my /etc/procmailrc. > Tell me if this looks OK, or if I'm making some horrible mistake. I > tested it briefly on a low-usage system and it seems OK, but I'm > particularly conerned about the locking aspect on a higher volume > system. In order to get people accustomed to SA, what I did is that for one month I did the tagging with SA, but did not do any filtering. So people would receive all their spam marked as *** SPAM *** in the subject, and they could see by themself that SA was working correct. Only after that I added the filtering of tagged messages, and it went like a dream. procmail is fail safe, I think spamc/spamd is too, that is if spamc/spamd would fail, procmail would deliver the original message unmodified, so I did not feel like using a copy of the message to run SA. Your receipt is OK, but bound to one problem: it uses a single file to put all the messages, so it can proceed only one message at a time. If your using external test (RBL, Razor...) proceeding one message can take 1, 2,... 5 minutes. So during this period, you cannot deliver any message! Better you make it one file per message. Or at least one file per user (so at a time you receive at most one messge per user). One file per message would be something alogn the line: DATE=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` PID=`echo $$` SPAMFILE=$DEFAULT-spam.$DATE.$PID :0c: | spamc -f >SPAMFILE which gives you a file name user-spam-200207160951-processID I use that receipt to archive spam all the time and it works fine. and one file per user would be along the lines FILENONSPAM=/var/maildump/$LOGNAME.nonspam DUMMY=`test -f $FILENONSPAM || touch $FILENONSPAM` :0c: | spamc -f >>FILENONSPAM which gives you a file /var/maildump/user.nonspam I used to use that receipt to sort copies of the spam/non spam Olivier ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
