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Re: set up simple mailing list?



Incoming from R. Wood:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:52PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta imagined:
> > Matt Price wrote:
> > >hey there,
> > >
> > >I'd like to set up  simple mail account on my box to act as a
> > >mailing list for one ofm y classes.  So if someone writes to
> > >417@derailleur.org,
> > >the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people.  
> 
> My ~/.forward file has this one-liner:
> $ cat .forward
> |/usr/bin/procmail
> 
> I don't remember whether that line was for procmail or
> spamassassin though.

Assuming it's done the same way here, SA processes the mail adding
   X-SPAM-STATUS: headers.  In your .procmailrc, you have a recipe
that looks for that header and acts accordingly.  Hence, .forward is
irrelevant to SA.


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