Topic: Which programs install procmail templates?

[steve288]

Im installing a new system and have procmail running on one SME comptuer but cant recall which program(s) install procmail and get it up and running. I see that procmail its self is installed in bin and the documentation, but no templates.

I thought dungog-email would do it, (cause all I want is procmail to get up and running and this seems like the least invasive program to start it) but when I run it all I get is
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WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
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Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
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smeextras                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
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Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: dungog-email
Nothing to do
(maybe I have to pay for it Im not clear)

Anyway can anyone tell me what installs procmail.

thanks

[cactus]

Im installing a new system and have procmail running on one SME comptuer but cant recall which program(s) install procmail and get it up and running. I see that procmail its self is installed in bin and the documentation, but no templates.

Easy go to the machine that has procmail installed and do something like this:

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rpm -q --whatprovides `which procmail`and that will most likely end up with:

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procmail-3.22-14.1.el4AFAIK procmail is part of the SME Server core, so it should be installed on all SME Server machines by default as it is a dependency for SpamAssassin:

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[root@smetest ~]# rpm -q --whatrequires procmail
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
spamassassin-3.2.5-48.el4
[root@smetest ~]#

[stephen noble]

http://www.dungog.net/wiki/Smeserver-mailsorting

[steve288]

Thanks Cactus, yes it appears to be installed. But Im not sure if it is active(?)
At least when I with little recipes for it they dont work.
(any additional advice is apreciated on this)

However I think Snoble may be on track with installing the mail-sort program, I think that may have the magic to kick start it. Ill give it a try.

By the way what is the command to expand the .procmailrc file from the templates eg. if the templates are in
/etc/e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc

yet when I type
expand-template /etc/e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc

I get ..
[root@mail crontab]# expand-template /e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc
ERROR: Cannot create output file //e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc.17042 No such file or directory
 at /sbin/e-smith/expand-template line 45


What is the right command ?
Regards.

[cactus]

By the way what is the command to expand the .procmailrc file from the templates eg. if the templates are in
/etc/e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc

yet when I type
expand-template /etc/e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc

I get ..
[root@mail crontab]# expand-template /e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc
ERROR: Cannot create output file //e-smith/templates-user/.procmailrc.17042 No such file or directory
 at /sbin/e-smith/expand-template line 45

From the top of my head:

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expand-template /home/e-smith/users/username/.procmailrcwhere you should replace the username with the desired username in your case.

[steve288]

Im sorry, If Im doing this right
eg as root type ..

expand-template  /home/e-smith/users/spadina/.procmailrc

Gives me.
ERROR: Cannot create output file //home/e-smith/users/spadina/.procmailrc.5753 No such file or directory
 at /sbin/e-smith/expand-template line 45

I dont know if it matters but when I do pwd from username I get
 /home/e-smith/files/users/spadina

so I change it to
expand-template  /home/e-smith/files/users/spadina/.procmailrc

and get
ERROR: No templates were found for /home/e-smith/files/users/spadina/.procmail.
 at /sbin/e-smith/expand-template line 45

I cannot seem to get the templates to expand ? manually.

regards

[cactus]

signal-event email-update perhaps then?

[steve288]

Wow, that works.

If I get anywhere with this Im trying to put together some docuemnt that may help others to use procmailrc and do a few things. I hope it turns out to be usefull.

Im not sure and of course its not always easy, but Im not sure I would have guessed that to rebuild procmailrc

Thanks.

[cactus]

Im not sure and of course its not always easy, but Im not sure I would have guessed that to rebuild procmailrc

Doesn't matter, some people have been here a lot longer and know a little bit more on the internals of SME Server. Glad so hear it solved your problem.