procmail & .forward

[Jeetendra Mirchandani]

arent the mails scanned through procmail by default(without being
invoked inside .forward)



Regards,
Jeetu
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On 2004-02-18 at 16:23:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Jeetendra Mirchandani um 16:01:
> > > but what does it do?
> > > can i do without it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jeetu
>
> > I assume you want to invoke something like SpamAssassin with this
> > command rule. Am I right?
>
> I suspect that we just have a confused newbie on our hands.  :)
>
> First of all, you can do without it.  If you were to just delete the .forward
> file completely, you would continue to receive email normally.
>
> The .forward file is how you arrange for mail messages to be delivered
> somewhere else, instead of or in addition to going into your inbox.  Very
> useful if you have multiple email addresses and wish to arrange for all of the email to wind up in the same account, for instance
>
>
> The one you sent just arranges for all email messages you receive to be sent
> through the command "procmail" (short for "process mail"), which is an email
> filter.  You can set up rules (in another file, called ".procmailrc") which
> tell procmail what to do, and there's not much it can't do: look for spam (with
> the help of yet another program such as SpamAssassin); automatically file
> messages into different folders based on the subject, or the sender, or the
> address they used to reach you; etc.  Very powerful, very useful . . .
> but completely optional.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> >
> > You did not say with any word which MTA you are using. Is it Sendmail or
> > Postfix or any different? If you are running Sendmail I suggest you call
> > SA using MimeDefang.
> >
> > The command line does follwing:
> > -sets IFS (Internal Field Separator - see man bash) to a simple space
> > - and calls procmail by exchanging the shell (see man bash)
> > - if the procmail call fails it will exit with error code 75 providing
> > the username for whom the .forward call was made.
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> >
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