On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:45 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > > (*) with it's brilliant "try 3 times, 1 second apart" retry timer.
> >
> > If this is merely about timing issues, where restarting spamd might
> > cause spamc to give up before the daemon is back, you could simply
> > adjust these. Both retry times as well as numbers of attempts are
> > configurable.
> >
> > To do that globally, without even touching your procmail recipes, you
> > can use spamc.conf in your sysconfig dir. Again, see man spamc.
>
> I have done so, and that may alleviate some of the problem.
>
> However, while you've given me some procmail-based shortcuts and saved me
> a bit of research, my point was that it would be very nice if the messages
> and flags you mention were *standard* parts of spamd, and not just coded
^^^^^
> into my (and only my) procmailrc.
I guess that's a typo and you meant spamc, no? spamc, the lightweight SA
client, written in C, not Perl.
> It's probably fairly trivial to have spamc add only this header under
It's not that trivial by far to do this consistent with spamd behavior.
spamc does not add any headers, and in fact does not parse the message
at all.
Simply pre-pending an error indicating header would indeed be easy, but
is prone to break badly. Feeding spamc a raw mbox mail with the From_
line immediately comes to mind. Also, to be consistent with spamd,
existing X-Spam headers would need to be handled.
> these conditions, and it would make it more compatible with third-party
> tools that are out there, and as a bonus, spamc could keep within the
> "principal of least surprise" by requiring an extra command line option to
> add these headers, so not as to break existing scripts.
On the other hand, instead of re-inventing the wheel -- coding all the
above requirements into your procmailrc *is* rather trivial. [1] Most
of the recipe magic I mentioned in my previous post already. To also
remove any existing X-Spam header, just like spamd does, once again
formail is your friend. '-I X-Spam' does the trick.
Note that the full solution is a mere 2 line procmail recipe. As opposed
to the work necessary to teach spamc how to parse mail...
And no, this is not frequently requested. From memory, you're the first
to ask for it.
guenther
[1] Granted, only if you happen to be quite familiar with procmail. ;)
--
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
