At 18:41 2004-02-05 -0600, Greg Ennis wrote:
I am using the procmailrc file on a Red Hat 8.0 system with procmail 3.22
2001/09/10. I am using sendmail 8.12.8 as well as spamassassin 2.60, and
clamav.
"the procmailrc file" I presume it's one YOU wrote? If not, note that
lots of people here aren't going to be familiar with the contents of some
script file installed by your choice of distribution. Is this a
~.procmailrc, or an /etc/procmailrc ? They're very different.
I would like to be able to identify certain header information in the case
of spam and virus identifications and forward a packet to the designated
recipient without the spam and without the virus. I would like to add a
line or two to the body letting the recipient know what happened to the
packet.
"packet" is a network term relating to a token of data. The term you
should be using is "message".
Is there a way to do this without piping the whole packet to a script using
| /usr/local/bin/script.
Well, if you're discarding the message, you don't need to deliver it all to
the pipe to send along a notice.
Search the list archives for "bouncer.rc" - I've written a script I use to
bounce the _headers_ from a questionable message inside the body of a
notification message (the examples you'll find are related to some
majordomo administrative frontend code I developed). I use much the same
code for sending virus notifications.
Sending notices about spam is rather worthless (I send myself a _report_
daily which is an extract of my logfile for the previous 24 hours for all
the spams or spam-like messages - I see summaries for every message which
had characteristics of spam, whether the message was ditched or not, which
is a handy way of keeping tabs on the effectiveness of my spam recipes, as
well as permits me to spot messages which perhaps I should have wanted to
receive (which is almost never), and which I can go retrieve from my spam
archive (since I don't simply /dev/null them). You're better off either
discarding/archiving the message, or inserting a header (using the f flag
and a pipe to formail) indicating "this message was identified as spam",
and letting your user filter it from there.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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Sean,
Thanks for the reply!!!!!!
Thanks for taking time to give me the proper idioms.
Greg
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