Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:03:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP <FreeBSD-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail relaying Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906261900470.53344-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906261807280.82477-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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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,
>
> <scarcasm>
> cd /usr/ports/mail/procmail
> make install clean
> man {procmail(1), procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5)}
> </scarcasm>
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.
>
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> 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
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>
>
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