procmail confirmation

Hey;

I want to clean up some of my procmail recipies; whitelisting
emails individually is getting to be a pain in the ass. I believe I
understand what I need to do, but would like some confirmation.

I have a list of valid emails and domains contained in a file:
${HOME}/WHITELIST.

In my ~/.procmailrc, I have Wl=${HOME}/WHITELIST

and a recipie that says:

# Attempt to whitelist emails
:0:
* ? /bin/fgrep -i -f ${Wl}
${DEFAULT}

The way I understand it, the email will be piped through fgrep which
will return 0 or 1 depending on whether or not the fgrep worked. If
0 (it worked), the email will get dumped to ${DEFAULT} and no further
processing happens.

Is that correct?

Thanks for any info.

Doug


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Re: procmail confirmation

Doug O'Leary :
>
> I want to clean up some of my procmail recipies; whitelisting
> emails individually is getting to be a pain in the ass. I believe I
> understand what I need to do, but would like some confirmation.
>
> I have a list of valid emails and domains contained in a file:
> ${HOME}/WHITELIST.
>
> In my ~/.procmailrc, I have Wl=${HOME}/WHITELIST
>
> and a recipie that says:
>
> # Attempt to whitelist emails
> :0:
> * ? /bin/fgrep -i -f ${Wl}
> ${DEFAULT}

Should be:

> :0:
> * ? /bin/fgrep -i -f ${Wl}
> ${DEFAULT}

However, that's limited. Here's the form I use for repeat spammers:

SPUNAME = ${PMDIR}/spammers_uname.lst

:0
* $ ! (^From:.*|^TO)${LISTS}
* $ ? /usr/bin/formail -x"From" -x"From:" -x"Sender:" \
-x"Reply-To:" -x"Return-Path:" -x"To:" \
| /bin/fgrep -s -i -f ${SPUNAME}
{
LOG="Spuname --- "
:0:
${MAILDIR}/spam-mail
}


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