bogofilter and sendmail

[Parker Morse]

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 08:55  PM, Arthur Chong wrote:
> After successfully installing bogofilter on a RedHat 6.2
> box, I can't seem to find any pointers on how I can
> connect it up with sendmail.
>
> I found the procmail, etc.  but I'm no expert with sendmail...

The procmail method IS the sendmail method. Most installations of sendmail 
only act as MTA (handling SMTP transfer of mail); once received, the mail 
is handed off to a LDA (Local Delivery Agent) for delivery to users. In 
most recent installations of sendmail, procmail is used by default as the 
LDA. (This is true of RH since 4.1.) So following the instructions for 
procmail - that is, putting the code snippets from the man page into a 
.procmailrc file in your home directory - should do the trick. This is how 
I'm invoking bogofilter, and it has worked quite well so far.

See Nancy McGough's Procmail Quick Start 
<http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/> for more about testing to 
see if procmail is already installed and working, and starting out with 
procmail.

pjm