[sclug] Spam Assassin now what

[Chris Aitken]

I now see your problem.

You want to get spam assassin to learn on a non-local folder.

I reckon procmail is the way to go:

If you already have procmail running, then just add the following:

# X-Spam-Status -> Spam folder
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
Spam

That will move all spam tagged email to a folder called Spam in your home
directory.

Then you could run a nightly cron job.

Out of interest, why do you use POP?

It would only require periodic checking to see if it has had any false
positives.

Any help

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-admin at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-admin at sclug.org.uk]On
Behalf Of Tim Sutton
Sent: 13 June 2003 09:49
To: Chris Aitken
Cc: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [sclug] Spam Assassin now what


Take 2:-)

Machine 1: (server)
Sendmail
Spamassassin
Pop3
_NOT_ using IMAP

Machine 2: (client)
Kmail

So I have figured out how to filter my spamassassin nail based on the
headers,
what I would like to do is be able to train spamass. with spam accummulating
on my client. I figured 1 way out already - I put all spam in 1 folder under
kmail and then copy that folder onto the server and run sa-learn on that
machine on the uploaded folder. I was wondering if there is a more elegent
solution to this? Ideally  some way of bouncing spam that has not been
detected by spamass back to the server and having it added to the spam
filter.

Writing this, I figure, I could probably use procmail on the server to
filter
mail with a designated keyword in the subject into a folder called spam and
then run sa-learn on it nightly using a cron job. But will my adding a
keyword to the subject line mess up the learning algorithm of spamass?

Tim

On Friday 13 June 2003 9:02 am, Chris Aitken wrote:
> You obviuously have spamassassin working, as you can see from your
headers.
>
> Either use your MUA to check the headers and stick spam in a separate
> folder or trash,
>
> or
>
> Use procmail to pre-filter it into folders on the IMAP server, or send to
> /dev/null.
>
> I am a bit confused as to how you are running your mail server (from your
> description). If you explain again (slower!!), I can probably help, as I
> have just spent a month sorting this at work.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sclug-admin at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-admin at sclug.org.uk]On
> Behalf Of Tim Sutton
> Sent: 12 June 2003 23:37
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Subject: [sclug] Spam Assassin now what
>
>
> Hi all
>
> Sorry I missed the meet last night. :-( I have just set up spamassassin on
> my
> server which I collect my email from using kmail & pop. Now what? How do I
> train it if my mailboxes are not left on the remote server using imap? I
> see spamass is putting its own header lines into the emails I am receiving
> which I presume means it is working. All the docs I looked at on the spam
> assassin home page seem to be server configuration centric. How do I put
> spamassasin to work from my client pc?
>
> TIA
>
> Tim
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