Re: kmail, spamassassin
> The story so far: I am using Kmail as my email client, running exim (ticked
> the sendmail box, but put the path to exim rather than sendmail - this
> seems to work), installed spamassasing via apt-get.
> I understand that I need to specify spamassassin as the MDA. Is there a way
> to do this for kmail ?
You want spamassassin to deliver your mail?? SpamAssassin takes a mail as
input, changes a couple headers and gives you the mail back, it doesn't know
anything about delivery.
Steps to get spamassassin working:
Make sure exim is installed (apt-get install exim)
Leave sending set to /usr/lib/sendmail or whatever it was -- this is actually
exim, but it will behave like sendmail so as not to confuse kmail.
Set exim to call spamassassin on incoming messages, using spamd.
Write a rule in kmail that moves mail to spam if X-Spam-Status=yes
I might have got a couple details wrong but hopefully that will get you on the
right track.
Personally I use exim -> procmail -> spamassassin, and I set kmail to access
mail via imaps, but you don't need that if you're happy writing filter rules
in kmail and you don't need to access mail remotely.
Corrin
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