Looks like you confirm what I had suspected after searching the entire Internet at least 10 times. :--)
So Procmail is indeed for local delivery only, not for email gateways. Bummer... Ok, so I will try amavisd-new next. Thank you for your time! -----Original Message----- From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Starting SA with Procmail Greg Allen wrote: > [snip] > > The only thing that might be unusual about my install is that the server > does not hold email. I pass all email to another server/s downstream, so > there are no mailboxes or user accounts on this server. so email will be sent from postfix to the end server, and won't be delivered locally. as a result, procmail won't even be called. running SA from an MDA is only feasible if your system does deliver mail to a local or virtual user. for relay, use "gateway" mode as you did previously. note that using amavisd-new would be better (that'll avoid forking smapc for every mail).