From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 26 16: 4:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EBC15198 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA61600; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:03:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:03:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: jack Cc: FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: sendmail relaying In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, jack wrote: > Today Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I thank all you guys who showed me what to do! Could I press one step > > further, and ask how I get procmail wired in, > > > cd /usr/ports/mail/procmail > make install clean > man {procmail(1), procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5)} > I'll tell you something, Jack, sarcasm nearly always reflects on the user, not on the target. Think about it, it's true. > > so that I can use > > automated filtering based upon some net database like the realtime > > blackhole list? > > You don't use procmail for that, that's sendmail's job. See > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README > Specifically > rbl Turns on rejection of hosts found in the Realtime Blackhole > List. If an argument is provided it is used as the > name sever to contact; otherwise, the main RBL server at > rbl.maps.vix.com is used. For details, see > http://maps.vix.com/rbl/. > under FEATURES But I wanted to filter incoming mail here, Jack, so I *did* want procmail. > > > I use Pine as my MTA, and I don't want to change that, > > but I'm not sure how to shoehorn procmail into that. > > Pine (a MUserA, not a MTransferAgent) has no interface with > procmail, I never said it did, I asked how to get procmail working. Well, someone else answered me. it just reads the mail that procmail has done its > things to. Sendmail can be configured to pass mail through > procmail, rather than mail.local(8) for local delivery which is > then read with pine or whatever. > > Look for procmail in the same README to have sendmail use it, or > call it from a .forward file as detailed in the procmail(1) man > page. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message