I am very happily running SA w/Amavis on a Cobalt Raq4 for some time now. There are 60+ domains on the server. Several users have .forward files as the mails coming into those accounts need to be passed to one or more of the following: leave copy in box for User A User 2 on the server in the same domain (which in most cases is them Fwd'd to an off server address) User 3 on the server in the DIFFERENT domain (which in most cases is them Fwd'd to an off server address) an address on another server (AOL, yahoo etc..)
These mails being forwarded are being Amavis scanned, but not being passed thru SA at all. Several times I attempted to write a proc recipie to have these mails passed thru SA with zero luck. Once I created such a nasty mail loop I had to shut down sendmail <G> Tonight I did some research (yet again) on this and found some info at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ which states basically SA wont work with virt domains.. Important Warning: Procmail Cannot Reliably Route Users' Messages in a Virtual Domain Traditionally an email message arrived at a mail server and the message transfer agent (MTA) routed it to the appropriate address, possibly passing it immediately to a separate local delivery agent (LDA), such as Procmail. Nowadays many people have their own domain name, but do not have their own mail server and they are not able to route the domain's mail in the traditional way. Instead, they need to route the mail long after the messages pass through the MTA that is running on the domain's purported mail server (i.e., the server pointed to by the domain's MX record). This is fraught with problems as you will discover if you try to do it. The current Procmail maintainer, Philip Guenther, summed it up well in a message in the procmail mailing list where he said: "You can't do virtual domains in pure procmail, as you need the MTA to provide you with the original envelope recipient address. Once you have that, sort the messages on that directly (do *not* use ^TO_)." ===================== In one case this is what I attempted for a recipie: SHELL=/bin/sh :0: * ^Subject:.*****SPAM**** /dev/null :0 c ! [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] :0 ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] In another instance (can't locate the recipie attempt right now tho..) I tried to effect similair to above but leaving the mail in the users box as well as forwarding over to another user on the server and a 3rd person on AOL. This is the one that caused the loop! The other Q I have is I have created new rules and restarted spamd but the rules are not recognized. Other times I have done this the rules were recognized.. but last time they were not. I can not figure out what I did different and I am 99.9% positive I set these rules up properly. I will honestly state I learn as needed and know almost nothing at Procmail. I really could use some help here.. one of these users is a close friend. I accessed her AOL account the other day and saw 90 out of 100 mails that would have been trashed as spam had they been passed thru SA. Please CC me, as I don't frequent the newsgroups that often.. thanks.. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
