After finally getting sick of deleting 95% of my mail to get the real content, I decided to try and get a mail filter going today. On my test machine (FreeBSD 4.4) I installed procmail-3.22, vpopmail-5.0, qmail-1.03 & current ucspi, daemontools, etc.
Having read up in http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg05776.html and http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/vpopmail+procmail.html I created a virtual domain, spoink.co.uk, with a couple of users in it, one called test1. In .qmail-test1 I have: |preline procmail -p -m /var/qmail/vpopmail/domains/spoink.co.uk/test1/Maildir/procmailrc and in test1/Maildir/procmailrc I have: MAILDIR=/var/qmail/vpopmail/domains/spoink.co.uk/test1/Maildir/ VERBOSE=off LOGFILE=/var/qmail/vpopmail/domains/spoink.co.uk/test1/Maildir/procmail.log LOGABSTRACT='on' # check that these are being passed through (VERBOSE will dump them to log) ZORT=$EXT NARF=$HOST :0w |/var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox What I get in the log is lots of: procmail: Program failure (100) of "/var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail" From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 04 00:17:54 2001 Subject: test22 Folder: **Bounced** 1495 However, I know that the EXT and HOST environment vars are set OK, both from procmail's logs, and by changing the vdeliver line to be a environment-dumping perlscript, and I also know that the Maildir directory exists, and can be delivered to (mail gets there fine if I remove the procmail stuff). Actually, the 'bounced' messages don't even make it back to the sender either, which makes me wonder if qmail understands what is going on. Unfortunately, vdelivermail's stdout doesn't seem to get logged anyway at when run in this way - neither the procmail or qmail-send logs show the reason for failure. Any suggestions or obvious errors? I'm not wed to procmail, but would maildrop make all this any easier? It seems that it's the vdelivermail aspect that is the common fly in both ointments. Regards, Howie (sorry for any tab-damage - I haven't figured Eudora out entirely yet) -- Howard Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I see stupid people. They're everywhere. http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/ They walk around like everyone else. http://www.lesser-evil.com/ They don't even know they're stupid."
