[TriLUG] procmail help

[William Schulz]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Brian A. Henning wrote:
> Generally, especially when working with something as well-developed as
> procmail, these things are smart enough to understand a leading / refers to
> the filesystem root, not the script root.  It's been a while since I've
> messed much with procmail, but I do believe something to the effect of
> 
> :0
> * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
> | /home/username/some/path/to/spam
> 
> will have the desired effect (eg. using SpamAssassin as a pre-filter).
> 
> HTH; someone correct me if I'm wrong!

Two points:

1) Current version of SA use X-Spam-Status: YES as opposed to that listed above.

2) Unless the mail is to be delivered to a program, you can drop the
pipe on the the delivery line (see below). 

Also, depending on where mail is delivered normally on your system, you
can just redefine the DEFAULT, and/or MAILDIR variables and use relative
paths from those.

Also, if using Maildir type boxes, be sure to include a trailing
slash(/).

:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: YES
/home/username/some/path/to/spam

or, for Maildir

/home/username/some/path/to/spam/

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