On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:20:36 +0200
James Hatridge
Ok, I really really want to stop the hot girl ads etc. So I installed Spamassassin. But now what? I don't see anyway of getting the damn thing to start working! I use KDE and Kmail...
(1) Configure Kmail to fetch mail from the local spool. (2) You should fetch your mail with a program that fetches your mail to the local spool, for example fetchmail, (3) Make should your local MTA (Postfix, Sendmail, etc) is set up to use procmail for local delivery. (4) Now use the attached file as an example for your ~/.procmailrc. I would suggest you use the spamd daemon, in that case you should start it at boot time. IIRC, SuSE already have the rc script set up, so all you have to do is enable it in the run level editor. If you don't want to use spamd, just replace "spamc" with "spamassassin" in ~/.procmailrc. (5) Now you could either setup the filtering rules with procmail or just use KMail's filtering (look for the header: X-Spam-Level:). The recommended set up is to filter anything with a score of 5 or higher (the number of"*" in the header). I suggest you filter it to a spam folder rather than the trashcan in case of false positives. Charles -- "Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you?" (By Patrick Volkerding)