Hi UnSpawn ,

Well with the option that u mentioned .. ie;

SHELL=/bin/sh
DROPPRIVS=yes

Procmail would not deliver messages ... nothing much was displayed in the log file. I guess it has something to do with the shell ( /bin/sh )?

Also could not solve the regex problem with procmail .. stil trying out ur sugesstions.

Regards ,
Xanthium.

Weird. Procmail should drop it's privileges as started by root (is it setuid root?) and use the $USER's shell w/o probs...
I'll try the regex myself and see what comes up.

This direct entered one will do:
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* ^Subject:.*credit.*card
$SPAMBOX

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this filters out my bogus test subjects like
"credit card"
"Get a free credit card"
"Where are my stolen credit card's?"
"cardiology frequent flyer credits for hospitalization on welfare chipcard"
"Cre d it\nca rd scredit\ncard"

and passes tru
"credit to those who deserve credit"
"Credita fornaccio matriculata"
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* for "Cre d it\nca rd scredit\ncard" to work like it should (echo -e) you should have a multi-line regex, man procmailex for more.
* also I haven't tested caps, if it doesn't work try ".*(c|C)ard"

hi UnSpwan ,

The solution u have mentioned is the ONE iam using right now however the trouble is that iam having too long a list of such words ( a lot many porno words and others spam related .. due to certain reasons i cant use spam tools ) so i needed to group together all such words in a single file for easy mgmt !
Any more suggestions ? ( regarding procmail )

am checking out procmailex now ...

Hey thanks for your help and efforts.

Regards ,
Xanthium.

Soz, I totally forgot that you need to match multiline subjects...
Procmail can include other rc files, so if you make one and could try if this works? I know, it ain't a very "elegant" solution wrt mgmnt, but if it works while you sort out how to use egrep and non-fixed regexes...

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* ^Subject:.*(credit.*card\
|more.*spam\
|spam\s+me\
|you.ve.*won.\
|winner.)
$SPAMBOX

Hi,

He he he .. its definately not what i expected ... but anyway thanks for your efforts.. i will experiment further.

Regards ,
Xanthium

Ok. Here's the procmail rule what I tried:
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* ? ( formail -zxSubject: | egrep -i -f $MAILDIR/EGREP )
HIT

These are the contents of $MAILDIR/EGREP:
credit.*(card|free)
free.*(pron)

These are the message subjects:
credit card
Get A Free Credit Card
Where are my stolen credit card's?
credit to those who deserve credit
Credita fornaccio matriculata
cardiology frequent flyer credits for hospitalization on welfare chipcard
Cre d it\nca rd scredit\ncard
it's prone to errors
free pron
Card Credits Here!
Credit on demand for free!
Free bird feeders
Freeware now!

This passed tru:
Subject: credit to those who deserve credit
Subject: Credita fornaccio matriculata
Subject: it's prone to errors
Subject: credit to those who deserve credit
Subject: Freeware now!
Subject: Free bird feeders
Subject: Card Credits Here!

This hits:
Subject: Get A Free Credit Card
Subject: Where are my stolen credit card's?
Subject: credit card
Subject: Credit on demand for free!
Subject: Cre d itnca rd screditncard
Subject: cardiology frequent flyer credits for hospitalization on welfare chip
Subject: free pron

Hmm, maybe I should just redirect to the Procmail tips pointer...

Hi ,

Hey THANKS a lot .. this SURE helped me a lot.
Certainly what i was looking for.

Just a small suggestions :
Why dont you people have "Hall-Of-Fame" for most valuable suggestions/tips ....it sure would help a lot of people.
It can be on the tune of portico.org except you people yourself decide which suggestion/solution by a reader was a beauty.

Regards ,
Xanthium.