Re: spamassassin w/ evolution?

[Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@hotpop.com>]

Does evolution run procmail on the mail it gets (or i should say, i'm
not downloading w/ fetchmail or anything, just evolution, so will
procmail filters still apply?)

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson


On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 15:47, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> 
> You can install spamassassing with apt-get install spamassassin.  Set
> /etc/default/spamassassin parameter ENABLED to 1.  Make sure the spamd
> service runs from /etc/init.d/spamassassin Then use the following procmail
> recipe to tag the mail:
> 
> UMASK=077
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> DROPPRIVS=yes
> 
> :0fw
> | spamc
> 
> >From there you can filter it based on a variety of rules.  The best one to
> use I have found is:
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
> 
> This will send all mail to the caughtspam folder in mail.  I recommend
> against /dev/nulling the mail since sometimes mail gets missconstrued as
> spam.  Only happens 0.5 out of 10, but it does happen.
> 
> One of the best places to put the whole recipe is in /etc/procmailrc.  It
> will look like this:
> 
> -- CUT --
> UMASK=077
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> DROPPRIVS=yes
> 
> :0fw
> | spamc
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
> -- CUT --
> 
> Just be careful with procmail.  It has a habbit of destroying mail at
> times when misconfigured.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Arthur H. Johnson II, Debian GNU/Linux Advocate
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> 
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> 
> On 6 Jul 2002, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just wondering if there was a way to use spamassassin w/ evolution
> > to control my cursed spam problems... is this possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Cameron Matheson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 




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