Re: Spamassassin and procmail

[Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com>]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail.  I'd
> like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add
> :0fw: spamassassin.lock
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
> to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to
> /var/mail/<username>, rather than following the rest of my procmail
> recipes.
>
> Any ideas on how to alter this behaviour?
>
> A


:0fw
# Or, use spamd and spamd, which is a lot nicer to your machine
# under heavy load:
#|/usr/bin/spamc -s 500000 -d <host> -p 783
| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
.spam/


...might work better. The pipe to spamassassin just tags the mail, the 
second rule is what actually delivers the message. Depending on the 
version of spamassassin, the -P flag is not needed any more (my 2.55 
install's man page says that pipe to stdout is default behavior).

You could also sort based on the level of "spamminess":


#Sort into spam folders based on "spamminess". Folder names
# have leading number so that Netscape sorts them correctly.
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
#.spam/
{
   :0:
   * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
   .spam.4-very-spammy/


   :0:
   * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
   .spam.3-pretty-spammy/

   :0:
   * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*
   .spam.2-somewhat-spammy/

   :0:
   .spam/
}


#Drop potential FN here:
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*
.spam.1-slightly-spammy/



--Rich

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