procmailrc configuration fails

[Lowell Gilbert]

"dhaneshk k" <dhaneshkk at hotmail.com> writes:

> THis is Dhanesh , Here I have to configure a       .procmailrc
> file in order to control spams in  the mail system
>
> I had a few mailing lists ,  and I can send mails to these lists from
> my personal mail id ,
>
> in  /etc/aliases  tther is an entry  for these lists as
> mylists : list1,list2,list3 etc
>
>
> but I have to block spams ,so I editted this entry as follows  in
> /etc/aliases
>
> mylists:spamassassin
>
> and I executed  #newaliases
>
> and  in /home/spamassassin   I created a file  .procmailrc  as follows
> (I changed the ownership as spamassassin:spamassassin to  .procmailrc
> and chmod -R 777 to procmailrc )
>
> # ee /home/spamassassin/.procmailrc
> :0
> ^TOmylists
> {
>    :0 c
>    ! list1 at mydomain
>    :0 c
>    ! list2 at mydomain
> }
>
>
>
>
> But when ever I tried to send mails from my account to
> mylists at mydomain  , its not delivering the mails to receipients
> (before configuring procmailrc  its working fine but spams are coming
> along with this so I decided to use procmail rc )
>
> I tried this alos
>
> I tried to configure the  /usr/local/etc/procmailrc file also the same
> way , but its also not sending the mails to the receipients in the
> lists...
>
>
>
> tail  /var/log/mailog   tells that the messages forwarded to Maildir
> directory , all the mails are ther in  /home/spamassassin/Maildir
> but its not deliverd to the client ids ..
>
> So let me request you to help me what mistake i made while doing this
> .Any suggestion will help me alot to solve this issue ..

You need to configure the spamassassin user to invoke procmail.
There are a number of ways to do this; you can even use it directly as
a mail delivery agent.