On 31 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:54:18AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > | I installed the spamassassin package and set it up as per the docs. > | The test routine works properly but when I added the entries to my > | .procmailrc file, fetchmail failed to download any of the mail. There is > | a message about an MDA failure (something about a non-zero state). > > Must be that your MTA, whatever it is, is attempting delivery but > procmail or SA is failing which causes delivery to fail so it reports > it back to the transmitter ASAP. > > | I'd like to get it working since mailfilter fails to do anything at all > | here. Any suggestions about what is wrong? > > Look at your procmail and your MTA's logs to see what happened. > > -D > > --
Yes, thanks: the problem was that the path specified in ~/.procmailrc didn't contain /usr/bin, in which spamassassin lives. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
