I am a new subscriber, and new to procmail. My computer experience has
been as a home user, no background or training. I'm not exactly a
newbie but not very experienced either, so if I make stupid mistakes,
don't shoot me.
I'm a lifetime heavy construction worker. Boilermaker by trade. To
get an idea of what a "Boilermaker" does check out the URL in my sig.
Now to the subject line:
I'm running a .procmailrc that calls the spam.rc file shown below:
:0
{
SPAM_LOG=${SPAM_LOG:-spam/spam.log}
SPAM_SPOOL=${SPAM_SPOOL:-spam}
FROM_ADDR=`formail -rtzxTo:`
:0c
$SPAM_SPOOL/.
:0
* ^To: *\/[^ ].*
{ TO_ADDR=$MATCH }
:0
* ^Subject: *\/[^ ].*
{ SUBJ=$MATCH }
:0
* ^Message\-ID: *\/[^ ].*
{ MSID=$MATCH }
# original seperators were (:) colons. changed to ** [hp]
:0h: $SPAM_LOG$LOCKEXT
| (echo "`date` ** $FROM_ADDR ** $TO_ADDR ** $SUBJ ** $MSID" >>
$SPAM_LOG)
}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This file sends suspect messages to a dir <spam> in numbered
individual files like so: ~/spam/1 2 3 4 etc. The line:
SPAM_SPOOL=${SPAM_SPOOL:-spam} being the one that does that (I think).
I'd rather have the messages appended to a spool type file, or really
just a "unix-message-format" file.
With that format I can open the spam spool with "mail" "mutt"
"emacs-rmail" etc etc. view, delete etc as needed.
The current setup leaves a spam dir with individual files for each
message, which is not recognized by the above mentioned apps.
My problem is that I don't understand the syntax in spam.rc enough to
tell it to make the kind of file I want.
--
Harry Putnam reader(_at_)newsguy(_dot_)com
Running Redhat Linux-5.2
See http://www.jtan.com/~reader for a brief pictorial
saga of construction work in the trade of "Boilermaker"