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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Problem with sendmail procmail spamassasin & relay Post 302217919 by hardesty on Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:48:53 PM
Old 07-24-2008
Problem with sendmail procmail spamassasin & relay

I have been working on setting up a mail relay. I have just about everything working except for the procmail part. The configuration is as follows:

Internet -> mailrelay -> mail server
|
spamassassin server

I have spamassassin running on a seperate server and have configured spamc to connect to it.

I have this in my cf file:

MAILER(procmail)dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
CPprocmail
LOCAL_RULESETS
LOCAL_RULE_0
R$* < @ $=w > $* $#procmail $@ /etc/mail/procmailrc $: $1<@$2.procmail.>$3
R$* < @ $=w. > $* $#procmail $@ /etc/mail/procmailrc $: $1<@$2.procmail.>$3
R$* < @ $=R > $* $#procmail $@ /etc/mail/procmailrc $: $1<@$2.procmail.>$3
R$* < @ $=R. > $* $#procmail $@ /etc/mail/procmailrc $: $1<@$2.procmail.>$3
R$* < @$* .procmail. > $* $1<@$2.>$3 Already filtered, map to original address


In my procmailrc file I have:

DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0fw
* < 256000
| /usr/local/bin/spamc
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null

:0 w
! -oi -f "$@"


My threshold for spamd is 15 at the moment for finding spam.

It looks like sendmail send the new mail off to procmal and process it: I see this in the log:
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/dev/null"
procmail: Opening "/dev/null"
Subject: [SPAM] More length and width
Folder: /dev/null 4175
procmail: [21421] Wed Jul 23 00:05:51 2008
procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes"
procmail: No match on "^^rom[ ]"
procmail: Executing "/usr/lib/sendmail,-oi,-oi,-f,ilan@escortcorp.com,sfair_funw@hardlink.net.procmail"
procmail: Match on "< 256000"
procmail: Executing "/usr/local/bin/spamc"
procmail: Match on "< 256000"
procmail: Executing "/usr/local/bin/spamc"
procmail: [21402] Wed Jul 23 00:05:52 2008
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oi -f "
Subject: 20m reward for capture of Osama
Folder: /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oi -f 1137
procmail: [21421] Wed Jul 23 00:05:52 2008
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oi -f "
Subject: Visit to See our Newly Opened Discount Store and KEEP your bucks INTA
Folder: /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oi -f 25378
procmail: [21441] Wed Jul 23 00:05:54 2008
procmail: Match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/dev/null"


It is deleting spam Like I would expect. The problem is what it does with the good mail. It seems to try to send it back to sendmail and then I never see it again. I do see procmail jobs running where they have rewritten the address to end in .procmail, but it just sort of disappears.

Any idea on where I could be missing things?

solaris 5.8
sendmail 8.14.2
spamassassin 3.25
procmail 3.22
 

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SENSIBLE-MDA(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)

NAME
sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems SYNOPSIS
sensible-mda from to detail client-addr DESCRIPTION
sensible-mda is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems. With sensi- ble-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, deliver, etc.) without having pick any one of them as required. FUNCTION
sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc: define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found (Or first found MDA, if run w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8) OPTIONS
Available command line options are the following: from The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable) to The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable) detail The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie: cowboy+sendmail@debian.org client-addr TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce) FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file) SEE ALSO
sendmail(8), procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8) BUGS
None known so far. AUTHOR
Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> HISTORY
4th Berkeley Distribution October 21 1999 SENSIBLE-MDA(8)
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