the procmail example in linux-sxs

[Matthew Carpenter]

begin  "M.W.Chang" <mwchang at netvigator.com>
(Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:02:54 +0800)

> 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.  If you don't want to .forward, you may need to re-m4 the sendmail.cf file.
> 
> 2. is it silly using procmail to catch spam by actually reading and 
> hence understanding the message body?
I don't think so.  I do this already, although primarily I do this based on addresses.