Procmailrc filtering

Intimidator · 06-10-2007, 12:17 PM

I am working on a user level spam filter based on bayesian approach(decidespam.py)
The program is working..but when i want to do real time filtering using
.procmailrc file.It's not working

The following is in my procmailrc file..

Code:

:0
| cat&>$HOME/guestmail && \
python $HOME/decidespam.py

what i want to do here is write each mail one at a time in to "guestmail" file and run decidespam.py on that..
In decidespam.py i am telling where the mail should get appended( mail or mbox/spam)
what could be the error?
Thanx in anticipation.

wjevans_7d1@yahoo.co · 06-11-2007, 07:30 AM

I don't know anything about python, so I didn't want to muddy the waters with a response, but I see that this question is more than 16 hours old, so I'll give it a shot.

Can you change your python program so it does this?

Rather than read the input from file guestmail, read the input from standard input. Write it to file guestmail within the python script itself. Also (as you presumably do already), write the mail to its intended destination (mail or mbox/spam.

Then use the usual procmailrc configuration lines:

Code:

:0w:$HOME/.lockmail
| $HOME/decidespam.py

Hope this helps.