Sample Recipe

[David Relson]

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At 04:42 PM 10/4/02, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
>David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> >    MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
> >    HOME=/var/lib/bogofilter
>
>That looks strange. MAILDIR is the directory where procmail
>saves the files, in my case I use MAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail.
>You definitely don't want it in /var/spool/mail. I don't see
>a reason to redefine HOME. This is never used unless you
>call it explicitly as I do in $MAILDIR. So I would not
>really include it in the man page here.

Consider the following environment... bogofilter is running on the mail 
server, not a user workstation.  The wordlists are in a system 
location.  The role of bogofilter is to identify spam and put it in a file 
from which it can be retrieved by the sysadmin.  Said sysadmin, wishes to 
use a normal MUA for retrieving the spam.  Note: there will be a mechanism 
for the sysadmin to reverse bogofilter's identifications and re

bogofilter uses HOME to find the wordlists.  It seemed to me that 
/var/lib/bogofilter would be an O.K. place for these files to live.

The use of a MUA to retrieve the spam indicates the file should be in the 
normal mail directory, i.e. /var/spool/mail.  If MAILDIR isn't set, the 
spam file goes into HOME/spam.  With my HOME setting, the spam file isn't 
accessible to a MUA.

That's my rationale for the two definitions.  If there's a better way of 
doing what I want, please let me know.  I'm all ears :-)

> >    :0HB
> >     * ? bogofilter
> >     {
> >             :0c
> >             | bogofilter -s
> >
> >             :0
>
>Lock this file, i.e.:

A colon (lock) has been added.

>               :0:
> >             spam-bogofilter
> >     }
> >
> >     :0Ec
> >     | bogofilter -n
> >
> >By the way, a while back the non-spam options ("-h" and "-H") were returned
> >to their original values of "-n" and "-N".
>
>OK, I am running the last RPM release.

As you likely know, I've taken a shot at building an RPM.  Unfortunately it 
failed, so I now have to wait for someone who knows more about that than do I.

David



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