On 2022-05-16 at 12:32:54 UTC-0400 (Mon, 16 May 2022 18:32:54 +0200
(CEST))
Lucio Chiappetti <lu...@lambrate.inaf.it>
is rumored to have said:
On Sun, 15 May 2022, Jon Baron wrote:
I am trying to use spamassassin by running everything through
/etc/procmail,
Sorru, I do not understand what procmail and spamassassin, intended to
process INCOMING mail, have to do with mailman which is SENDING OUT
mail.
It is fairly common for SpamAssassin to be used on both incoming and
outgoing mail, but obviously outgoing would need to use something other
than procmail to call it.
I still have a few almost-dead mailman lists on my machine, and I do
use procmail to filter my personal incoming mail. It is a long time we
have abandoned (been forced to abandon) spamassassin, but that was
running on the institute MX, not on my own machine.
As far as I remember (after a first trial) spamassassin was run as a
milter in sendmail.cf (the sendmail doc had s[pecial instructions).
SpamAssassin can be used as a milter during the SMTP transaction or as a
filter in the delivery pipeline via a delivery agent like procmail.
Using procmail is generally suboptimal, but it may be the only mechanism
available for an end user to deploy SA for their own mail without root
access.
Also: procmail is antique abandonware that no one should use in 2022,
but it can be very hard to replace.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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