the procmail example in linux-sxs

Douglas J Hunley doug
Mon May 17 11:29:16 PDT 2004


M.W.Chang spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into:
> I've got my procmail sort of working.
>
> 1. if I want all users to use one prcomailrc, does it mean that I only
> need to put a procmail file in /etc? Right now, I have a .forward and
> .procmailrc in /home/user.

yes. /etc/procmailrc

>
> 2. is it silly using procmail to catch spam by actually reading and
> hence understanding the message body?

depends on how you do it. dont re-invent the wheel. use spamassassin and 
vipuls razor

>
> 3. So I only need to download the filter from the supplied URL and it
> would be working without additional changes needed?

don't bother with junkfilter. use spamassassin and razor. much better.

I can help you offlist if you'd like. then we can create a new steps from it

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