On 5 Feb 2004 Robert Krueger (racsw(_at_)frontiernet(_dot_)net) wrote:
I've got Postfix/Procmail and Spammassassin + Nancy McGeough's
virussnag.rc script,
virussnag.rc is by Dallman Ross not me -- I just write about it!
1. All my mail that isn't tagged by SA and deposited in a special file
is sent to a maildir/ type folder. Because my virus stuff plus the SA
stuff are in a regular MH style file, I used the :0 : format telling
procmail to use a lockfile on these files only. I assume this is
proper, as I see no need to use maildir/ format style directories to
deposit spam and viruses. While i go to the trouble of scanning these
files using "less" to make sure I'm not getting good mail deposited
here, I have to believe there's an easier way. Isn't there some mail
utility that can scan all this mail in one of these files ( one at a
time, all, whatever) and lay it out neatly so I can see what type of
mail is in there? ( I did try "mailstat", it's kind of a "busy"
display)
Yes there are mail utilities that can
"lay it out neatly so I can see what type of mail is in there"
They are called MUAs or mail clients. I recommend pine or mutt.
Pine can natively read MH and mbox (and lots more, but not
Maildir, mailbox formats). Mutt can read Maildir and mbox format
mailboxes (and probably more but I don't use Mutt so I don't
know). This is much easier than using 'less'!
About filtering your mailing lists. I talk about recipes for
doing this in my Procmail Quick Start, which is here:
<http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/>
Hope this helps,
Nancy
--
Nancy McGough
Infinite Ink ~ <http://www.ii.com>
Deflexion & Reflexion (my atom-enabled blog) ~ <http://deflexion.com>
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