Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:24:32 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "dhaneshk k" <dhaneshkk@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmailrc configuration fails Message-ID: <44r6oie4db.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY127-F38FD074DF6E1FC94CD57CBB21A0@phx.gbl> (dhaneshk k.'s message of "Mon\, 11 Jun 2007 10\:07\:10 %2B0000") References: <BAY127-F38FD074DF6E1FC94CD57CBB21A0@phx.gbl>
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"dhaneshk k" <dhaneshkk@hotmail.com> writes: > THis is Dhanesh , Here I have to configure a .procmailrc > file in order to control spams in the mail system > > I had a few mailing lists , and I can send mails to these lists from > my personal mail id , > > in /etc/aliases tther is an entry for these lists as > mylists : list1,list2,list3 etc > > > but I have to block spams ,so I editted this entry as follows in > /etc/aliases > > mylists:spamassassin > > and I executed #newaliases > > and in /home/spamassassin I created a file .procmailrc as follows > (I changed the ownership as spamassassin:spamassassin to .procmailrc > and chmod -R 777 to procmailrc ) > > # ee /home/spamassassin/.procmailrc > :0 > ^TOmylists > { > :0 c > ! list1@mydomain > :0 c > ! list2@mydomain > } > > > > > But when ever I tried to send mails from my account to > mylists@mydomain , its not delivering the mails to receipients > (before configuring procmailrc its working fine but spams are coming > along with this so I decided to use procmail rc ) > > I tried this alos > > I tried to configure the /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file also the same > way , but its also not sending the mails to the receipients in the > lists... > > > > tail /var/log/mailog tells that the messages forwarded to Maildir > directory , all the mails are ther in /home/spamassassin/Maildir > but its not deliverd to the client ids .. > > So let me request you to help me what mistake i made while doing this > .Any suggestion will help me alot to solve this issue .. You need to configure the spamassassin user to invoke procmail. There are a number of ways to do this; you can even use it directly as a mail delivery agent.
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