[SWLUG] Spamassasin and Evolution

[neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk]

hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> Ar Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:05:16AM +0000, ysgrifennodd Neil Jones:
> > Does anyone know how to configure Spam assassin and Evolution. I have
> > set it up as recommended by several sites on the web and I find that it
> > is diverting everything to the spam folder. Even things that are written
> > in Welsh which I thought would not fall foul of any of the checks.
> 
> How did you install and configure it? What distro, how did you get
> spamassassin, and what changes to which config files did you make?

After we spoke yesterday I thought it would work out of the box. I tried installing again as I had dependency issues the first time.

It may have been that it wasn't there as the filter would probably behave as it did in that case.

I get a different result. now It just hangs when I do the downloads.

I installed it using CPAN. My Distro is SUSE 9.0 I changed nothing only included a filter to pipe the incoming mail through spam assasin.

I am using demon's webmail to send this.


> 
> On Fedora, I just installed the spamassassin rpm. I don't use evolution.
> I use procmail+mutt. So after installing spamassassin, I put a line
> in my .procmailrc: 
> 
>   :0fw
>   | spamc
> 
> ...and then
> 
>   :0:
>   * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>   IN.caughtspam
> 
> All of this goes before any other recipes, so that the spam gets
> filtered out before things are sorted into folders. 
> 
> So that anything that spamassassin added an "X-Spam-Status: Yes" to
> ended up in a folder called IN.caughtspam. It has worked perfectly
> ever since. Periodically I delete the folder. I should just send it
> to /dev/null in the first place, really.
> 
> The only mail that I know about losing was a one-off. Someone sent me 
> an Amazon voucher. The format of the "claim codes" is something like 
> xxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx, where x can be any letter or digit. Spamassassin 
> makes some guesses at how the name of a certain medication whose brandname 
> is six letters long (begins with V, ends in A) might be obscured. My 
> claim code was presumably something along the lines of xxxx-Vi4gr4-xxxxx, 
> and into the spam folder it went!
> 
> Telsa
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SWLUG Discussion List - Discuss at swlug.org
> http://swlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>