88393 – Mail Filter Howto

Bug 88393 - Mail Filter Howto

Summary: Mail Filter Howto

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-04-08 11:37 UTC by Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-04-16 14:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-08 11:37:23 UTC

I found a few slight problems in the mail filter howto.

In the configuring razor section of chapter 2, it tells the user to su - amavis, but this command will not complete since the shell is set to /bin/false.  The user first needs to change to a valid shell, then perform the commands, then change the shell back.

Also, DCC is no longer masked.

The note in section 3.4 doesn't read very well.  Is restarting amavis necessary or not?  It looks like it isn't, but it is a bit ambiguous.

Code listing 6.6 is also ambiguous.  As what user should this be run as?  Should the $HOME be replaced with something?  If it is to be run as spamtrap, then we need to change the ownership on the files we've created in ~spamtrap like the .maildir and .procmailrc, otherwise you get the following:
spamtrap@gravity spamtrap $ maildirmake --add Bayes=/var/amavis/.maildir/Bayes $HOME/.maildir
/home/spamtrap/.maildir: Permission denied

That was all I noticed... I'm sure you guys will love me for this. ;]

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-16 14:03:37 UTC

Thanks, document updated.