A Comprehensive Description of All Variables

This section contains a description of each configuration variable in the SpamBouncer, what it does, and what the valid values for it are. Many of these variables have default settings that will work for the vast majority of users; you should not need to set most of them in your .procmailrc file. If a SpamBouncer feature is not working properly, though, setting the correct variable may fix the problem.

Please note that those variables in red have no defaults and MUST BE SET or the SpamBouncer will simply pass all your mail on to you unfiltered!

DEFAULT The email inbox to which your system delivers mail by default, or (if you use your shell account to read mail) to which you want your mail delivered by default. If you normally read email using a POP mail program, like Eudora, Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Pegasus mail, ask your system administrator for the name and location of your POP mailbox, and set DEFAULT to that path and file name.

FORMAIL The full path to your system's copy of formail. If this is not set properly, the SpamBouncer is unable to sort and tag your email, and so will simply pass it on unfiltered to you.

SBDIR The directory where your SpamBouncer program and auxiliary files are located.

ADMINFOLDER ADMINFOLDER is for mail from mailer daemons (usually bounced mail -- mail that could not be delivered), and for mail from administrative addresses like root, admin, sysadmin, and abuse. Shell readers will want to set this to an appropriate folder separate from their DEFAULT folder. (I use admin.incoming.) POP mail readers should set this to DEFAULT, and use their POP program's filters to sort it into a separate folder after downloading.

ADMINFOLDER is set to your DEFAULT mailbox by default.