On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote:

>  On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > At the moment, that's a hack in the system-wide procmailrc that I don't
> > know how to do, since the only thing procmail knows about userspace is
> > "dropprivs="yes"", and there's no translation for an easy way to equate
> > that to email address (i.e. it allows me to do it per *domain* not per
> > user, i.e. *@mydomain.com, but if a user has two domains, then I'd have to
> > do them each separately).
> 
>  If you're using procmail, you could look at the X-Original-To (or similar)
>  header to figure out who the mail is going to.  Otherwise, you could modify
>  your setup to pass information in to procmail from the MTA.
> 
> > Presuming we're looking for the value of the "user" based on the email
> > address, yes, I understand, but can't you check the value of -u before you
> > even do that? (i.e. at the earliest point)
> 
>  Ah, there you're talking about spamc/spamd which is a different beasty all
>  together.  If you want to skip checks based on how you're calling spamc, then
>  check the value you're going to use for the username and don't call spamc if
>  you don't want the mail scanned.

I'm running procmail with dropprivs=yes.  There's no easy procmail thing 
for (getpwnam($<)) and I do NOT feel like firing up perl on every message 
to evaluate that just to figure out if I should fire up the C program that 
I use so I don't have to fire up perl.

I see procmail macros for the email address, and for the _TO thing, but 
NOTHING that just gives you the goddamned login.

I don't need -u on spamc, spamc just picks up that username and runs with 
it.  If I'm running spamc as danm, spamd grabs danm's prefs.

When I said -u, I was asking how spamd would recognize the implied value 
of -u, not the actual command line flag.

If that makes sense?

-Dan

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