> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of William Stearns
> As a side note, you might consider how your original
> message comes
> across; someone reading it quickly might mistake your
> phrasing for someone
> who's taking out their frustrations on a mailing list of
> people offering
> free help for a free program that your ISP has made available to its
> customers.
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I'll have to note that he got alot more response than my message
(below)
did. I've had problems because "something" is rewriting the envelope "From "
(not "From:") line that is tagged to the front of the message. As a result
my normal mail filtering scripts are only half working and I still haven't
even figured out how Spamassassin is being called. I see a directory added
under /etc/mail for spamassassin -- is that all it takes to add something
to a sendmail config? any directory added gets processed for .cf files?
How does it know where to look for binaries? I can't see any config files
specifying what to call. My .forward file still only references my mail
filter, so where / how does SA get called?
I did my install by doing an install of the SA module under perl, and
that seems to have installed it and turned it on as well. I don't even know
how to configure it fully yet -- so I certainly didn't want to turn it on.
My normal method -- install SW -- read documentation that is installed
with the SW, then configure SW and turn SW 'on'. I'm not used to sw that
turns
itself on just by installing it -- except maybe vendor supplied RPM packages
--
but even then they'll often tell you to go configure something first, then
turn the package on when things are setup the way you want them.
But the civil approach to asking a question seems to get alot less
attention:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of L. Walsh
> Sent: Fri, May 23, 2003 11:09p
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SAtalk] installed SA, mail has new 'symptom',
> cause/effect? cure?
>
>
> I've had a perl mail filter that does prefiltering of my
> email as it is received and sorts it into various subfolders
> of an IMAP'ed directory. For the most part it sorts list
> mail into separate list folders and for the most part, I found
> that the envelope "From ..." line at the beginning of the message
> (in mbox format) was a reliable determiner of what list it came
> from and if it came from a list or a person.
>
> So, for example, Joe sends a response to me and the perl list, let's
> say. That means I get two copies. One copy says it comes directly
> from Joe -- that one ends up in my Inbox. The other copy says it
> comes through the list redirector -- that copy ends up in the list
> folder.
>
> I installed SA and for some odd reason -- email that comes from
> lists -- instead of saying From [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
> the first line, now says it come to me from the original poster.
>
> Actually it doesn't actually say it comes to me since my name isn't
> on the "To" or "Cc" lines, so it gets treated as non-personal,
> unsorted email and ends up in my 'generic' folder.
>
> Even more odd, though, is that this change didn't happen to all of
> my lists -- in fact it appears it is a minority -- lists like
> perl, kde and squid are affected, but, but kernel, cygwin, bind,
> for example are not. Very weird....Obviously the difference
> gives me a lead to investigate, but just wondering if anyone
> had seen anything like this before.
>
> Also, even though I installed the Spamassassin perl module, I didn't
> do anything in particular to actually "activate" it. It just seems
> to have activated itself in the chain of things and I'm not exactly
> sure how. The mail.rc file doesn't appear to have a recently
> modified date though there is a new spamassassin dir under /etc/mail.
> My understanding of sendmail is a bit limited, so I'm not quite sure
> how it hooked itself in.
>
> My distribution filter is run out of my .forward file in my home
> directory.
>
> Thanks for any pointers....gotta learn to be careful with these
> newly 'hired' assassins! :-)
>
> -linda
>
>
>
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