This one time, at band camp, Matthias Hentges said: > Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 10.25 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: > > hello all > > > > this is my post to the group after some time. debain had been working > > wonderfully. > > > > i have read quite some posts on spamassasin. so went to dselect and read > > up material available on that. > > > > i use exim (almost default set-up) and fetchmail (again almost default > > set-up) for mail processing. i read mails with mutt. > > > > do i just install spamassasin as it comes or do i have to tweak it? > > At least with postfix you'll have to integrate SA manually. It should be > the same with Exim. It is. Dman's page is excellent, and if you follow the instructions, you'll have a very nicely working setup very quickly. The only thing I would recommend doing is (if you're using either woody or sarge) is backporting the version from unstable - I have gotten much better results, with far lower false positives/negatives than before. This is easily done by downloading the source, cd into the toplevel source directory and typing `fakeroot debian/rules binary`. You may need to first install the build-depends, which will be listed in debian/control. > > i do not use .forward or .procmailrc file. i am yet to find a need for > > either. can i use spamassasin without either of these files? By default, spamassassin does not delete email, even if it tags it as SPAM. Usng a .forward or .procmail sorting method will allow you to move tagged messages to another folder for review later. I check it when I have time, and I'm still seeing too many false positives to wnat to change to automatically deleting it. Probably mostly due to the fact that I have barely tweaked the default install (^: > You may want to have a look at this: > > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > > Note: I do not use Exim so i don't know if this site is what you need. It is, and many thanks to dman for his work. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | It's not? Are you saying that you | | steve@lobefin.net | SHOULD allow people (other than William | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from | | | their arse? -- Seth Galbraith | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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