Ok today, I tried something to get spamassassin working on my box.

The mail arrived in the regular mailbox, but I got this message back from the server:

************************************ This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

pipe to |/usr/bin/procmail generated by brian@amason.net

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/usr/bin/procmail generated by brian@amason.net ------

Could not lock /home/brian/Maildir/: File exists at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 381. procmail: Program failure (70) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin" procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded

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So what have I done wrong here? Does the "rescue" message mean it sent it without filtering, and that is why I got the mail?

my .forward looks like this for the time being: |/usr/bin/procmail /home/brian/Maildir

I may have to do some tweaking in my ~/.procmailrc file, but it looks like procmail is functioning, but I need to tweak spamassassin.

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

--Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918