Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bijan Soleymani" <bijan@server.crasseux.com>
To: "JZidar" <zee@email.si>
Cc: "Debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:20:03PM +0200, JZidar wrote:
> > OK. How can I do that? Google didn't return anything really useful.
>
> Ok here's a (somewhat detailed) step by step.
>
> 1) set up fetchmail to download your mail from your pop account onto
> your local computer.
>
> a) apt-get install fethcmail
> b) this is my ~/.fetchmailrc:
>
> poll pop.psq.com protocol pop3 username bijan@psq.com password ********
> poll mail.crasseux.com protocol pop3 username trustno1 password ********
>
> Adapt this to your account.
>
> c) either run fetchmail by hand each time you want to retrieve mail or
> d) add an entry in your personal crontab
> Mine is:
> * * * * * fetchamil &> /dev/null
> Which runs fetchmail once a minute.
>
> 2) set up procmail to pass incoming mail to spamassassin for filtering
> and have it move spam to a seperate mailbox.
>
> procmail should already be installed but if not:
> apt-get install procmail
>
> This is what my ~/.procmailrc file looks like:
>
> #Use spamassassin to flag spam. Note I usually use spamc instead of
> #spamassasin for better performance.
> :0fw
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
>
> #Move flagged spam into the spam folder.
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Spam
>
> #Handle mailing lists
> :0
> * ^X-Mailing-List.*debian
> /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Debian
>
> :0
> * ^List-Id:.*hurd
> /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Hurd
>
> :0
> * ^TO.*ICEBIKE
> /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Icebike
>
> :0
> * ^TO.*mlug
> /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.MLUG
>
>
> 3) install an imap or pop server on your computer. I like IMAP because
> it allows me to check my mail from the road. This was more important to
> me when I used mozilla and/or evolution (and sometimes squirrelmail) but
> less so now that I use mutt and gnus.
>
> I like uw-imapd because it doesn't require much setup.
>
> a) apt-get install uw-imapd
> b) add the names of the mbox (mailbox) files you want to the file
> ~/.mailboxlist
> Here's mine:
> INBOX
> IMAP/INBOX.Hurd
> IMAP/INBOX.Icebike
> IMAP/INBOX.MLUG
> IMAP/INBOX.Sent
> IMAP/INBOX.Spam
> IMAP/INBOX.Trash
> IMAP/INBOX.Drafts
> Trash
> Sent
> IMAP/INBOX.Debian
>
> 4) set up evolution to use your local imap or pop server
> This should be no problem.
>
> I hope that clears things up,
> Bijan
Thank you very much! I'm on it!
Jernej
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