From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 20:00:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B435E37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net (dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net [65.194.254.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32A743FA3 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Received: from works.voyager.net (bsdbox [192.168.0.3])h5DNB12H002606 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:11:01 GMT (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030613231002.00a0acb0@pop.voyager.net> X-Sender: dragoncrest@pop.voyager.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:10:39 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dragoncrest In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030613113055.00a19ec0@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Procmail isn't handing off mail like it should. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:00:38 -0000 Nobody has an answer for this? Do I need to setup my procmail settings on the server level and run it as root in order to solve this issue? Feedback is much appreciated. Thanks. At 11:39 AM 6/13/03 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. Ok, got a really weird setup here that I need some > advice on. I've started using my home mail server for spam filtering for > my dad and step brother. Well, it filters spam just fine for me, but all > it's doing for them is downloading the mail, then forwarding it off to > the dumping account without actually filtering the mail. I'm confused > why. Ok, well, here's my basic setup. > > I'm firing up fetchmail at user level via cron to grab my mail, > filter it, and then deliver it locally. My dad and step brother's mail > is slightly different. Their mail is being pulled in by my fetchmail > process, and it's supposed to be filtered and then forwarded from my > machine off to a dumping account on my external domain so that all they > recieve is spam and virus free mail. Problem is, all it's doing is > grabbing the mail, then forwarding it off. It's not filtering it. I > have even setup local accounts for them complete with an exact copy of my > procmailrc file to try to help this, but it's not working. > > Ok, to give you a little better mental picture, here's a general > layout. > > user1 (this is me) > user2 (this is my dad) > user3 (this is my step brother) > > user1 uses fetchmail to pull in the mail and pass it through spam > assassin and deliver it to his local account. He also grabs the mail for > user2 and user3 in an effort to filter their mail as well, then forward > it off to each one's respective mail accounts. The process is being run > as user1 from cron rather than as root. All works fine except no mail is > being filtered for either user2 or user3. It's basically coming in, and > then immediately going out again to another location. > > Any way I can rectify this? Do I have to setup separate > fetchmail processes for each user? Or do I have to setup fetchmail as a > daemon and somehow set it to process mail for all 3 user accounts > individually. I'm kinda confused here. Any help is apreciated. Thanks. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"