Procmail Recipe Help - Pleeeeease..... - SOLVED

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: OT: Procmail Recipe Help - Pleeeeease.....


> I'm trying to use procmail to feed incoming mail to SpamAssassin and then
> forward the email to another address for one of my accounts.  Because I
use
> Postfix with Maildir, my /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file contains:
>
> DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/"
>
> so that messages that don't match any rule get delivered to the normal
> "inbox".
>
> But for one person, I want to have all his mail scanned by SpamAssassin
and
> then forwarded to a non-local email address.  Here is his ~/.procmailrc
> file:
>
> # Forward all mail to SpamAssassin
> :0 fw
> | /usr/local/bin/spamc
>
> :0 fw
> ! user at otherdomain.com

Duh!  Needed to remove the 'fw' so line is just ":0"

> The forwarding works but then procmail goes on to deliver a blank email in
> $HOME/Maildir/new.
>
> blacklamb# ll Maildir/new
> total 0
> -rw-------  1 user  user  0 Oct 15 11:30
> 1066242632.35780_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net
> -rw-------  1 user  user  0 Oct 15 11:33
> 1066242826.35812_0.blacklamb.mykitchentable.net
>
>
> I assume this is because of the "DEFAULT" setting in the site-wide
> procmailrc.  However, it is my understanding that since all mail matches
the
> second rule, mail processing should stop at that point and nothing should
be
> delivered to "DEFAULT".
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew