At 16:45 2002-02-26 +0100, Gilles N wrote:
I've a small question about procmail... I'm using a linux box with postfix
as my entry mail server, then I use aliases to forward the mails to an NT
Box where MS-Exchange is running. No users accounts are configured on the
linux box, it's only a forwarding mail system...
I would like to use procmail to filter the incoming mails (like spam &
virus). My question is where should I put the .procmailrc file if I would
like to filter ALL incoming mails?
You'd put a filter in /etc/procmailrcs/, then deal with manually invoking
it from postfix somehow. I don't use postfilx, but 'man procmail' does
discuss how to invoke it from a _sendmail_ rule. I have a link at the top
of my disclaimer page about how to configure procmail to be invoked from a
sendmail rule.
As long as you're delivering through aliases though, you should be able to
ignore rule-based invocation if postfix aliases are anything like sendmail
ones, since you should then be able to do something like so:
remoteuser: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -m
/etc/procmailrcs/gilles_spam_filter.rc \"original alias text\""
(all one line of course). If you were originally piping to another prog,
the "original alias text" would _NOT_ include the leading pipe symbol.
At the bottom of your gilles_spam_filter.rc, where you've reached the point
that you're going to forward the message, you either:
:0
| $1
or
:0
! $1
depending on whether the arguments you're dealing with are other programs
or addresses at a separate server (I don't use this technique for mail
forwarding, but I do use it for placing special procmail filters in front
of majordomo lists, so I use the first invocation type)
I've read many things about procmail but that always talk about user
specific configuration ("the .procmailrc should be located into the /home
folder...").
Procmail is most commonly used as an LDA, and that's where the .procmailrc
file comes into play. YOU DON'T HAVE LOCAL DELIVERY, SO THIS DOESN'T APPLY.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
_______________________________________________
procmail mailing list
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail