[TriLUG] Mail Question

[Dean Price]

Nope, checked that as well. Everything is running as proper users. And the
timing issue would be valid if it wasn't happening to every piece of mail
being brought in by fetchyahoo and Gotmail... since postfix and fetchmail
are working perfectly.

Dean Price
deano at price4.org
dprice at charter.net
dean.price at ctg.com
910-797-3895

<quote who="Jon Carnes">
> <WAG> SpamAssassin has a timing parameter, and if it takes too long to
> process a piece of mail then it simply passes the mail on through
> without any checks. Could it be that some of the processes for getting
> the mail are simply taking too long (or are running as some user that
> doesn't have spam assassin setup to run)?</WAG>
>
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 07:59, Dean Price wrote:
>> That's what is confusing me procmail is filtering the fetchyahoo and
>> gotmail  into the perspective folders, just not going through
>> spamassassin.
>>
>> Believe me, I have two handfulls less hair over this one.
>>
>> You noticed in the .gotmailrc file that I had commented out the lines to
>> tell it to be delivered to procmail and added the line to actually
>> forward
>> directly to postfix....
>>
>> That didn't work either.
>>
>>
>> Dean Price
>> deano at price4.org
>> dprice at charter.net
>> dean.price at ctg.com
>> 910-797-3895
>>
>> <quote who="Joseph Tate">
>> > Could it be that gotmail and fetchyahoo aren't redelivering mail
>> through
>> > postfix like fetchmail does?  That's the reason that mail retrieved
>> via
>> > fetchmail are processed by spamassassin: fetchmail hands off to
>> postfix
>> > to do the local delivery.  Make sure that gotmail and fetchyahoo don't
>> > deliver straight to your Inbox.  Do the procmail rules work on the
>> > messages delivered through fetchyahoo and gotmail?
>> >
>> > Joseph
>> >
>> > Dean Price wrote:
>> >
>> >>Ok guys, I have googled the snot out of this one... Maybe someone in
>> here
>> >>can give it a try.
>> >>
>> >>I have a mail server running postfix, procmail, spamassassin,
>> fetchmail,
>> >>gotmail, and fetchyahoo.
>> >>
>> >>Every thing coming directly to me and the stuff that fetchmail pulls
>> in
>> >>gets processed through procmail and spamassassin. the mail that
>> gotmail
>> >>and fetchyahoo pull in is going through procmail but is not getting
>> >> tagged
>> >>by spamassassin.
>> >>
>> >>here are all relevant files.
>> >>
>> >>      .procmailrc
>> >>
>> >>MAILDIR=$HOME # Default mail directory
>> >>DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/deano
>> >>PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
>> >>LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log.`date +%y-%m-%d`
>> >>
>> >>###SpamAssassin
>> >>:0fw
>> >>* < 256000
>> >>| /usr/bin/spamc
>> >>
>> >>:0e
>> >>EXITCODE==$?
>> >>
>> >>##Catch SPAM
>> >>:0
>> >>* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
>> >>* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*
>> >>SPAM
>> >>
>> >>###To '' *@TriLUG.org '' INBOX '' m
>> >>:0:
>> >>* ^To.**@TriLUG.org
>> >>TriLUG
>> >>
>> >>###To '' *@yahoo.com '' Yahoo '' m
>> >>:0:
>> >>* ^To.**@yahoo.com
>> >>Yahoo
>> >>
>> >>###To '' *@hotmail.com '' HotMail '' m
>> >>:0:
>> >>* ^To.**@hotmail.com
>> >>HotMail
>> >>
>> >>           .gotmailrc
>> >>
>> >># This is a sample gotmail configuration file. Rename it to .gotmailrc
>> >># and place it in your home directory to use it.
>> >>
>> >># See the manpage for more options!
>> >>
>> >>username=deano153 at hotmail.com
>> >>password=XXXXXXXXX
>> >>domain=hotmail.com
>> >>forward=deano at price4.org
>> >>only-new
>> >>delete
>> >>#use-procmail
>> >>#procmail-bin=/usr/bin/procmail
>> >># folders="Inbox , Junk Mail"
>> >>retry-limit=3
>> >>
>> >>          .fetchmailrc
>> >>
>> >>poll mail.charter.net
>> >>        proto pop3
>> >>        user "dprice153"
>> >>        pass "XXXXXXXX"
>> >>        is deano
>> >>        nokeep
>> >>
>> >>          .fetchyahoo
>> >>
>> >>username = deano153
>> >>password = XXXXXXXX
>> >>use-https = 0
>> >>use-spool = 1
>> >>spool = /usr/bin/procmail
>> >>spool-mode = pipe
>> >>use-proxy = 0
>> >>proxy-host = proxy.hostname.com
>> >>proxy-port = 80
>> >>proxy-username = proxyAuthenicationUserName
>> >>proxy-password = proxyAuthenicationPassword
>> >>use-forward = 0
>> >>mail-host = localhost
>> >>send-to = deano at price4.org
>> >>send-from = deano at price4.org
>> >>new-messages-only = 1
>> >>no-delete = 0
>> >>folder = Inbox
>> >>quiet = 0
>> >>get-external = 0
>> >>no-errors = 0
>> >>empty-trash-after = 0
>> >>empty-trash-before = 0
>> >>empty-bulk = 1
>> >>repeat-interval = 0
>> >>leave-unread = 0
>> >>no-from-line = 0
>> >>logout = 0
>> >>status-only = 0
>> >>
>> >>          crontab entries
>> >>
>> >>deano 	Yes 	fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>> >>        Yes 	fetchyahoo.pl
>> >>        Yes 	gotmail
>> >>
>> >>The only difference here is that fetchmail uses command line options.
>> and
>> >>gotmail and fetchyahoo do not accept options.
>> >>
>> >>Dean Price
>> >>deano at price4.org
>> >>dprice at charter.net
>> >>dean.price at ctg.com
>> >>910-797-3895
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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