[Gllug] getting exim to call spamassassin

Pavel Bradut Boghita bradut at freeuk.com
Fri Aug 30 18:58:27 UTC 2002


On Friday 30 August 2002 4:45 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 04:21, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> > I have been working all night to set up spamassassin to work with my mail
> > system. I am getting there but I am not through yet.
> >
> > I got exim to work with kmail ok, I now need to get exim to call
> > spamassassin
>
> Calling spamassassin from exim3.x was a pain, wrapper scripts and all
> that, we're currently using exim4 for the scanning box which is calling
> spamc directly and piping the return data back into exim.  There's a
> site out there with all the details and documents.
>
> > when mail is received, so that spam can be labelled accordingly and then
> > kmail can apply its filter. That's the scenario I am trying to implement.
>
> Why not just let procmail (filtering tool of choice) do the work of
> calling spamc/spamd and filtering spamtagged mail elsewhere?

Thanks, I will actually go on the procmail route.... see you in one week or 
so...;-)

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