Mastodawn

Some overdue maintenance got done today:
- Updated ~/.procmailrc to direct some noise into the appropriate folders, from which they had escaped due to envelope sender changes
- Ensured several (2 physical, 2 cloud/virtual) servers are fully current with Debian/Trixie (including reboots for fun kernel updates)
- Reminded myself how to log output of Tinyfugue sessions 👴

Time to do a little bit of grilling, now 🌭🍔

#Maintenance #Backlog #Procmail #Tinufugue

kravietz 🦇May 24

Nostalgic memories from 2001 🤗

# spamrc by Pawel Krawczyk [email protected]
# $Id: spamrc.txt,v 1.43 2001/02/13 13:09:41 kravietz Exp $

If you look at the #procmail scoring worked back then, today anti-spam systems like Rspamd work pretty much on the same principle

https://web.archive.org/web/20010304202647/http://ceti.pl/~kravietz/spamrc/spamrc.php3

Spamrc, procmail rules for automatic spam detection

Phil Feb 21

I had been thinking about the filtering part of #fcli, my #Mastodon to #email bridge as 'similar to #procmail', but today I realised that if I add custom headers to the email messages it produces I can just use procmail itself. By interfacing #Fediverse ideas with email standards I seem to be needing less and less custom code to get a setup which works for me, and making more and more use of decades old open source software, which is actually a pretty great outcome.

KielKontrovers Blog Feb 5

uhh #Procmail ist ja echt kryptisch. Aber hab doch hinbekommen zu fixen bei #SmartList. Das wurde wohl noch vor #SPF geschrieben. Heute ist wichtig, dass From korrekt ist und Ursprungssender lieber in Reply-To packen.

Phil Jan 17

I'm thinking about experimenting with replacing the filters in #FCLI with something more general purpose, inspired by #procmail recipes.

Procmail uses regular expressions on email headers (and bodies), so I wonder what the equivalent is for #JSON documents. Is this an #XPath like use case? I started looking for the JSON equivalent of XPath, and found #JSONPath, and then realised that XPath supports JSON natively nowadays.

Uwe Scholz Jan 17

Das #Dovecot 2.4.2 Update unter #Gentoo ist auch so ein Krampf. Die neue Standardkonfiguration verlangt den User "vmail", der nicht vom Installationsskript angelegt wird. Früher™ hat das auch mit anderen Nutzern geklappt (z.B. bei #Postfix). Naja. Und die Integration mit #procmail ist jetzt auch futsch. Menooo.

Eine halbwegs hilfreiche Update-Anleitung fehlt auch. Ich hab jetzt wirklich kein komplizierte Setup, nur persönliche Mails abrufen und einsortieren, halber Vormittag dafür schon weg. 🙄