Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:26:52 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Procmailrc??? - I'm Not Getting It Message-ID: <20011004062652.A37568@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A102@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A102@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:12:58PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I've installed Procmail and would like to start experimenting with it. I've
> searched the web and everthing I find talks about creating a ~/procmailrc
> file. OK, I understand that each account can have this file in its home dir
> with its own "recipies". But as a system admin, what if I want to filter
> *all* mail coming into the system before it gets to individual accounts?
> How do I do that? What am I not understanding?
You start by reading the procmail(1) manpage which contains the
following paragraphs:
If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command
line, procmail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc,
interpret commands from /usr/local/etc/procmailrc (if pre-
sent). Care must be taken when creating
/usr/local/etc/procmailrc, because, if circumstances per-
mit, it will be executed with root privileges (contrary to
the $HOME/.procmailrc file of course).
If running suid root or with root privileges, procmail
will be able to perform as a functionally enhanced, back-
wards compatible mail delivery agent.
Procmail can also be used as a general purpose mail fil-
ter, i.e., provisions have been made to enable procmail to
be invoked in a special sendmail rule.
The details on how to configure sendmail to invoke procmail is left as
an exercise for the reader.
--
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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