[Sderby] Spamassassin

Ian Spratt slh at f2s.com
Sat Jul 30 23:51:39 BST 2005


Ah. procmail. the thing i dont use
I've set something similar up using exim4 though, and it seems to be 
working okay

Thanks for all the replies

Ian

>In ~/.procmailrc, I have the following rules:
>
>#Send the mail through spamd via the spamc client.
>:0fw:spam.lock
>|spamc
>
># Throw spam into it's own mailbox for future reference/checking.
>:0
>* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
>caught-spam/
>
>You may, also, require the procmail environment to "know" where to
>deliver the messages to. This is achieved with the procmail variables:
>
>HOME=/home/dave
>MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
>DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox/
>
>Additionally, you may need a PATH variable to tell procmail where spamc is:
>
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>
>Adjust these to match where binaries are and where your mail is put -
>and again, remove trailing / for a non maildir installation on the
>mailbox placement.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Cheers
>
>Dave
>
>On 7/21/05, slh at f2s.com <slh at f2s.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi All
>>time to blow the cobwebs off this mailing list
>>
>>Spamassassin
>>I know people use it, but how exactly?
>>I've got it set up, and it appears to be scanning mail, adding stuff in
>>the headers, that wort of thing.
>>But once its been flagged as spam, what do you do with it?
>>do you just kill it? or dump it in a folder somewhere for later perusal
>>i intend to keep all mine, only at first, so i have a pile to help SA
>>learn, and also to make sure its not getting any legit emails
>>
>>    
>>




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