[wplug] Fetchmail and Procmail

[Kevin Squire]

I have been working on the problem again this morning, and I found my
"missing" mail.  The were all dropped to /var/mail/fetchmail.  The mail
does not appear to have been sent through my procmail config.  

P.S. -- If it helps any I am on a Debian Sarge box, with exim set up to
just deliver mail locally.



On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 01:24:16 -0500
Kevin Squire <gentgeen at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> With special thanks to Brandon K. for his help, I have a (what seems
> to be) working procmail config.  I also have a system wide fetchmail
> config that I have been using for a long time now, so I know it works.
>  I
> tested my procmailrc by running the script found at the bottom of the
> procmail man page.  
> 
> Now I need to get the two working together. I thought it would be as
> simple as changing the MDA line (as you can see by the commented line
> if the rc file.) After change the MDA to procmail, I left it for about
> 4 hours, and it seemed to have lost all my mail for that time period.
> 
> The googleing I have done, mentions needing a ~/.forward file, but
> they all seem to assume you are running fetchmail with the
> ~/.fetchmailrc, not the system wide /etc/fetchmail.  Do I still need
> it with this setup? What should be my MTA line, if any at all?
> 
> As a side note, I eventually want to make the procmailrc file system
> wide, and any comments/suggestiong/warning/etc will be appricated.
> 
> Here are my two files:
> ------------------------
> /etc/fetchmailrc
> ------------------------
> set postmaster "kevin"
> #set bouncemail
> #set no spambounce
> #set properties ""
> # Polls servers every 5 minutes
> set daemon 300
> poll imap.linuxmail.org with proto POP3
>        user 'gentgeen:linuxmail.org#linuxmail.org' there with 
>        password 'XXXXXX' 
>        is 'kevin' here 
> #       mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
>        mda '/usr/bin/spamc | /usr/bin/deliver %T'
> 
> poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3
>        user 'kvsquire at comcast.net' there with 
>        password 'XXXXXX' 
>        is 'val' here
>        mda '/usr/bin/spamc | /usr/bin/deliver %T'
> ------------------------
> /home/kevin/.procmailrc
> ------------------------
> PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
> LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
> 
> :0f
> | formail -A "Time-Received: `date`"
> 
> # Next set of lines for ClamAssassin - http://drivel.com/clamassassin/
> :0fw
> | /usr/local/bin/clamassassin
> 
> # The condition line ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB
> # (250 * 1024 = 256000 bytes) are processed by SpamAssassin. Most spam
> # isn't bigger than a few k and working with big messages can bring
> # SpamAssassin to its knees.
> :0fw
> * < 256000
> | /usr/bin/spamc
> 
> # If the message was actually skipped, we want to know
> :0Ef
> | formail -A "X-Spam-Skipped:  Yes =Message not tested by
> SpamAssassin="
> 
> # Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in
> "From"# to be dropped.  This will re-add it.
> :0
> * ^^rom[ ]
> {
>   LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "
> 
>   :0 fhw  | sed -e '1s/^/F/'
> }  
> 
> :0f
> | formail -A "Time-Delivered: `date`"
> 
> 
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