[Dovecot] can deliver filter through spamc?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 19:55:20 EET 2008


Rick Romero wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:04 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>>   
>>> I'm using maildrop to filter mail like:
>>>
>>> xfilter "/usr/bin/spamc"
>>> xfilter "/usr/bin/bogofilter -ep"
>>>
>>> I want to change to deliver (so I can use sieve) but can deliver do
>>> this?
>>>     
>>
>> deliver can't execute external programs. Typically you'd run these
>> programs first and then deliver. I don't know about spamc/bogofilter,
>> but spamassassin for example:
>>

Here's what I did:

spam_and_deliver.sh:
-----------------------------
#!/bin/bash
cat - | /usr/bin/spamc | /usr/bin/bogofilter -ep | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver

.fetchmailrc
----------------

blah blah ... mta /path/to/spam_and_deliver.sh

seems to work.



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