Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:12:16AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:34:16PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:59:45PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > > 1. how to i tell spamassassin *not to* process some messages? for
> > > instance, debain mailing list, i understand, is already processed for
> > > spam. no use spamming it again
> >
> > Rearrange your exim filter so that it delivers such messages directly to
> > the appropriate mailbox before the part that calls spamassassin.
>
> some confusion here. here is my exim filter (relevant portions):
[...]
> if i understand correctly, my .forward file (exim filter) checks for
> x-spam-status. this is updated by spamassassin. so is it that all mail
> that is processed by exim filter is processed by spamassassin anyway? in
> that case, even if i move my mailing list items out in the beginning of
> the exim filter, it wont make a difference as the exim filter is
> processing mails *after* they are processed by spamassassin.
Oh. Well, you can't, then. You'll have to use procmail instead to make
that work; I gave an example of what should be a working .procmailrc
with spamassassin earlier.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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