I think I'm making progress on answering my own question. This post: http://mla.libertine.org/tmda-users/200203/msg00125.html
seems to have relevant answers. But I'm wondering why it didn't show up in the maling list archive search engine, which in fact seems to return 0 hits for the keyword "procmail". I'm sure I'm missing something here. Chris On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Chris Hardie wrote: > > Greetings. I have a question that *seems* like it should be intuitive > enough to answer, but I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it. > I'm using qmail, procmail, and tmda 0.67. > > My .qmail file pipes mail to 'procmail -p'. I'd like to call tmda-filter > from procmailrc. If tmda-filter decides to do anything with the message > other than approve it (e.g. send a confirmation, drop, bounce, etc), then > procmail shouldn't have any more work to do in that run. > > However, if tmda-filter approves the message (e.g. it passes the filter), > I'd like procmail to keep working with it. > > The procmail file I'm hoping for looks something like this (in > pseudo-recipe terms): > > 1) pass and sort known mailing list messages > -if a match is found, message is filed and process ends > -otherwise, keep going to next recipe > > 2) Message is to an address we don't usually want to filter, but looks > like spam > -pass to tmda-filter > -if tmda-filter does something (confirm,bounce,drop), process ends > -otherwise (message is confirmed), keep going to next recipe > > 3) pass and sort mail with other particular headers > -if a match is found, message is filed and process ends > -otherwise, keep going to next recipe > > 4) pass message to tmda-filter > -if tmda-filter does something (confirm, bounce, drop), process ends > -otherwise (message is confirmed) keep going to next recipe > > 5) if message is destined for my cell phone, route to cell phone > > 6) default delivery > > > A few notes: hopefully I've made obvious the kinds of weird things I want > to do: if someone sends a message to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", an address I don't normally want to > filter or do confirms on, but looks like spam (because, say, it has an > RBLcheck header in it that I can detect with procmail), then I want to > have TMDA confirm it. Likewise, if a message is sent to my cell phone > address (which is routed to procmail via .qmail files), I want to make > sure it's confirmed by TMDA before it gets passed to the phone, but I want > to do that particular routing in procmail. The end result is that I can > pass mail sent to a variety of addresses through the same filtering > system, but treat each one a little differently. > > I guess the theme is that TMDA and procmail both have similar kinds of > filtering options, and I'm just more used to procmail's, and want to work > with it for everything except the whitelist/blacklist stuff. So I > basically want to treat tmda-filter as a filter that will fail/defer > (confirm,bounce,drop) or succeed (pass the message through). > > Am I thinking about this the right way? Is it painfully obvious how this > should work, or am I trying to stretch TMDA in directions it's not > supposed to go? > > Thanks for any help. > > Chris _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
