Sorry for the confusion. When I posted the original question, I cut and pasted the
contents of my /etc/procmailrc from a wiki page where I had it stored, and the format
accidentally got changed. My /etc/procmailrc was actually correct all along, and
contains:
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null
I have also tried, instead of /dev/null:
$HOME/mail/SPAM
but I still can't figure out why mail tagged as spam isn't being redirected. How can I
trace this?
Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the tip on not having to restart anything when
altering procmailrc files.
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:36:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0
tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,
SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT_PINE
version=2.44
X-Spam-Level:
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Because I'm not 100% certain what needs to be restarted whenever you
> alter /etc/procmailrc (can someone say?) I've been rebooting to test
> each change.
Linux is not Windows. You should almost never have to reboot. A few
services (like spamd) may have to be restarted when their configurations
change, but not the whole system.
In the case of procmail, a new copy is started (and thus the config is
loaded from scratch) as each message is delivered, so you never have to
restart anything.
> :0:
> *
> X-Spam-Flag: YES
> $HOME/mail/SPAM
What example that you Googled made you think there is supposed to be a
newline after the "*"? The "*" must appear as the first non-whitespace
character of the condition line, and the first line that does not begin
with a "*" is the action. So above you have an empty condition and an
action to store into the file "X-Spam-Flag: YES", and then a garbage line
"$HOME/mail/SPAM" which procmail will ignore (and warn about in the file
named by the LOGFILE variable, if you had set one).
> :0:
> *
> X-Spam-Status: Yes
> ~/mail/SPAM
Procmail does not understand tilde (~) as $HOME.
You want:
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$HOME/mail/SPAM
Good luck.
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