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Re: Spamassassin+evolution




On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Green wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:46, kmark+debian@pipeline.com wrote:
> > I mentioned something a few days ago. You need to redirect your mail flow.
> > normally you mail does this:
> > pop3 server -> evo
> > if you want to use spamasssin you need to make evo read mail from your
> > local mail box.
> > pop3 -> fetchmail -> /var/spool/user -> sendmail ->  procmail ->
> > /home/user/mbox
> > Not sure where to insert spam assin as I dont use it. But the idea is that
> > evo would read from /home/user/mbox not directly from pop3 server.
>
> A better way for Evolution users is to set up a filter, as discribed in
> this URL:
>
> http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=io8Wc_Wg&p_lva=&p_faqid=329&p_created=1039628948&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zcGFtJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9NCZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0yJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=
>
> Works well for me.
Hi Simon,
I tried something like this, but once Evo supported local mboxes, I
figured why not just do filtering the linux way and leave the reading to
evo. In both cases you need to install some exteral program to check
the mail anyway, why bother  evo with more work.
-Kev



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