[Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?

[Jerry Yeager]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:00 PM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:

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> From: martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?
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> also sprach Jerry Yeager <jerry at scene-naturally.dyndns.org>  
> [2007.08.15.1758 +0200]:
>> a) Postfix milter to run ClamAv, eh something like this (for Linux  
>> fans)
>> b) then use the regular Postfix <--> SpamAssassin <--> LDA (with  
>> sieve)
>> setup (message routing via Postfix master.cf) so that individual  
>> users can
>> set their own SA rules and vacation stuff.
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> This is exactly how I used to have it but then the need for
> a vacation autoresponse to the From: address (as opposed to
> Return-Path) arose and I had to switch to procmail:
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>   http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-August/024766.html
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> Before that, I was using spamc with --pipe-to, but always had a bad
> feeling about that, since the manpage says:
>
>   Note that there is a very slight chance mail will be lost here,
>   because if the fork-and-exec fails there?s no place to put the
>   mail message.
>
> and my message to SA-users on this was never answered[0].
>
> 0. http://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users&m=115185095923772&w=2
>
> Now I am using procmail and at least now that failure will cause
> postfix to defer a message.
>
> -- 
> martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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> half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be.
> but half the bee has got to be, vis-a-vis its entity. you see?
> but can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee,
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> spamtraps: madduck.bogus at madduck.net
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Ouch, that does pose a bit more of a problem. Putting an additional  
case type structure in Sieve to use the From: field along with either  
dropping back to the current reply-path or gracefully do not reply  
for messages from those folks that use a web-mailer without filling  
in the from: field, then recompiling Sieve would do it, but you  
really would not be gaining a lot over what you currently have.

		Jerry Yeager

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