On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to > get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and > do other things locally, and procmail running in my $home. I have > no interest in setting up system-wide (i.e. several users) mail > delivery since I am the only user of email here. I have been keeping > the same .procmailrc file from well before the transition from > exim3 to exim4, making ad hoc kludge changes only when absolutely > forced to, and largely without a clue as to what I was doing. > > I once had spamassassin working, but for a long while it has not > been working. Certainly there has been no evidence of it working > since I installed xfce under wheezy. Today I noticed in my > .procmailrc the following line, which is left over from long ago: > > PATH=/usr/local/nmh/lib:/usr/local/nmh/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > > This line is there for the benefit of the scripting that inplements > the recipes that follow. But this is wrong for my wheezy!!! In > particular, everything in /usr was put there by installing wheezy with > a squeeze business-card CD followed by debian package installs using > aptitude pointing to ftp.us.debian.org/debian/. Aptitude says that the > package nmh is installed. But there is no directory /usr/local/nmh/ on > the computer. Sometime in the past the organization of Debian /usr > transitioned from having that directory to not have it. It's been long > enough that it may have gone thru several transitions while I was > confused and inattentive (because of poor access to emails, perhaps) > > Anyway, I think I need a PATH statement that is appropriate for > Debian wheezy before I can do any meaningful debugging. > > Can someone who is running a single user Wheezy system using single > user .procmailrc and spamassassin (or spamc/spamd) please post a copy > of the PATH statement is a working setup? > This is my PATH statement, which worked under Lenny and still works in Squeeze. I haven't tried Wheezy. I'm using mbox for my mail format. "mbox" is also my default message location.
Heck, I'll include most of my .procmailrc for you: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin HOME=/home/rob MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmaillog ### Trust EZhoster and PTD.net to do accurate spam filtering: :0: * ^Subject:.*SPAM /dev/null ### bogofilter spam filtering: :0fw | /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep # :0: * ^X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter spam # some mailing lists: :0: * ^todebian-u...@lists.debian.org debian-user :0: * ^From.*.posts.freecycle.org freecycle -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110417224627.ga16...@aurora.owens.net
