Hi Stéphane, Thanks for dealing with these old bugs; much appreciated!
Would you be interested in a patch to e.g. README.Debian about using spamoracle with different MDA's? I still feel that'd be useful, and would not need a patch to the upstream sources. If you're interested, I'll supply one. Thanks, Bye, Joost On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:00:11PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the spamoracle package: > > #224150: spamoracle: documentation is MDA-biased > > It has been closed by Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Stéphane Aulery > <[email protected]> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 224150: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224150 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact [email protected] with problems > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:54:06 +0200 > From: Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: spamoracle: documentation is MDA-biased > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > (2011-06-06) on buxtehude.debian.org > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, > RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL,VALID_BTS_CONTROL > autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 9; hammy, 76; neutral, 32; spammy, > 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--H*u:2014-03-12, 0.000-+--H*u:1.5.23, > 0.000-+--H*UA:1.5.23, 0.000-+--H*UA:2014-03-12, > 0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:smtp4-g > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) > X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 > > tags 224150 + wontfix > stop > > Upstream answer it is developed only for procmail. If it works with > anything else that is left to the user. As spamoracle is no longer > actively developed, documentation will not be changed. > > -- > Stéphane Aulery > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:29:26 +0100 > From: Joost van Baal <[email protected]> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > Subject: spamoracle: documentation is MDA-biased > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > X-PGP-Fingerprint: 8FC6 A40E 31B8 7E0E 2270 D7A9 0606 9CF2 9694 57F0 > X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x969457F0 > X-PGP-Key: http://mdcc.cx/~joostvb/joostvb_key.asc > X-Accept-Language: nl, en > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin > 2.60-master.debian.org_2003_11_25-bugs.debian.org_2003_12_15 > (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on master.debian.org > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no > version=2.60-master.debian.org_2003_11_25-bugs.debian.org_2003_12_15 > X-Spam-Level: > > Package: spamoracle > Version: 1.3-3 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream, patch > > Hi, > > The spamoracle documentation mentions procmail as the only mail delivery > agent usable with spamoracle. However, of course spamoracle works fine > with other MDA's, like maildrop. I believe it will even work with > qmail's .qmail files, or courier's .courier files. > > In the debian/control file, > > This program is designed to work in conjunction with procmail. > > could be replaced with > > This program is designed to work in conjunction with your mail delivery > agent, like e.g. procmail. > > In the spamoracle(1) manpage, > > This machine must have procmail(1) (see http://www.procmail.org/) > installed. Your ~/.forward file must be set up to run all incoming > e‐mail through procmail(1). > > could be replaced with > > This machine must have a mail delivery agent installed which is > capable of pre-filtering messages through external commands. > Procmail(1) (see http://www.procmail.org/) and maildrop(1) > (see http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/) are such MDA's. > Typically, your ~/.forward file takes care of running all incoming > e‐mail through your filtering MDA. > > The ~/.procmailrc example > > To process automatically your incoming e‐mail through SpamOracle and > act upon the results of the analysis, just insert the following > "recipes" in the file ~/.procmailrc: > > :0fw > | /usr/local/bin/spamoracle mark > > :0 > * ^X‐Spam: yes; > spambox > > could be replaced with > > To process automatically your incoming e‐mail through SpamOracle and > act upon the results of the analysis, just call spamoracle from > your MDA's filter definition file. For procmail, this means inserting > > :0fw > | /usr/local/bin/spamoracle mark > > :0 > * ^X‐Spam: yes; > spambox > > in the file ~/.procmailrc. > > For maildrop, this means inserting > > xfilter "spamoracle mark" > > if (/^X-Spam: yes;/) > { > to spambox > } > > in the file ~/.mailfilter. > > > Thanks, Bye, > > Joost > > -- > . . http://mdcc.cx/ > Joost van Baal . . > . . http://logreport.org/ > . . http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
