Re: [vps-mail] greylist-milter & procmail

[Bennett Lanford <benlanford@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/05, tim <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Recently I set up greylist-milter, absolutely amazing the effect. The
> reduction in spam is incredible, thankyou!!

Yes, greylisting is probably my most effective spam fighter, too.

> 
> BUT, since it is running, my procmail recipes aren't being processed
> anymore.

I'm not sure what you mean. (If mail is greylisted and the sender
doesn't try again, the mail never makes it to the phase where sendmail
attempts to deliver the mail locally, so--of course--procmail recipes
would never be called in that case. You probably mean something else,
though ...???)

> procmail service is running, and heck it is the LDA by
> default on the vps2, right?

No--not on a brand new vps2 out of the box. As with "stock" FreeBSD,
the default LDA is mail.local . (mail.local won't call the procmail
rules ...)

> 
> Any one else experience this, and how can I make sure the recipes are
> being processed again. This is for both server-wide 

For server-wide procmail processing check your sendmail.cf by issuing
the following command on your VPS2:

# grep '^Mlocal.*procmail' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

If the output is something like: 

Mlocal,         P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXhmnz9,
S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,

(on one line)

then sendmail is using procmail as the LDA (local delivery agent).

If you don't see output like that, then the easiest way to make
procmail your default LDA is probably:

# vinstall procmail-lda

(Lots of other vinstalls call the procmail-lda vinstall ...)

> and at user-level.

(I guess making procmail the default LDA is also the easiest way to
make user-level .procmailrc files work as well.)

-- 
Bennett Lanford <benlanford@xxxxxxxxx>

There are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary and those that don't.

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