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Re: Help on simple spam filter (fwd)

2001-03-06 20:14:32
At 19:44 2001-03-06 -0500, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:
   The above recipes are in /etc/procmailrc.

If it hasn't already ocurred to you, you might want to experiment with this first on an isolated host. If you're on a host with live users, and tweaking /etc/procmailrc, you're potentially interfering with REAL email. That'a a bad place to learn, even if it's only YOUR email.

For instance, for learning purposes, /dev/null is better replaced with a mailbox of some nature that you can retrieve messages from (though on a systemwide procmailrc, that might be a trick, since envelope data may not be included - even so, it's better than NOTHING at all).

On a shell machine some users will also have their own .procmailrc
files.

Indeed.

   I take it that if any of the above recipes are activated,
then the users own .procmailrc won't be.

If a recipe is delivered to (that is, it's conditions result in a delivery to the delivery portion of that recipe), and the recipe doesn't have a 'c' (copy) or 'f' (filter) flag, then yea, the message handling stops right there.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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