On 04/15/2003 08:26 PM, Christof Schmitt wrote:

The installation was ok, but is there a chance, that kmail and spamassassin works together (only with the pop3, not with sendmail)? At this moment it seems, that kmail fetch the mails directly from the pop3-Server and I found no file at spamassassin to put the pop3-address in. If it would be so, kmail could fetch the mails throug 'localhost' from spamassassin (I thought, but I don't know how?).

You could have fetchmail pop your mail, deliever it to sendmail, which hands it off to procmail since the address is local, which pipes it through spamassassin on its way to your local mailbox, and use kmail to get your mail locally. I am doing this here, except I am using Netscape mail. YMMV -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:26, Christof Schmitt wrote:

Hi list,

maybe it is the wrong place to ask. If it is so, I am sorry. My problem is: I use kmail (with pop3) and installed spamassassin and procmail to minor spam in my linux-system. The installation was ok, but is there a chance, that kmail and spamassassin works together (only with the pop3, not with sendmail)?

If you're just downloading mail from your ISP, that's probably all you can do. Procmail's only really useable with Spamassassin if you have shell access to the box you get your mail from, and have the privilege to edit the procmail config.

At this moment it seems, that kmail fetch the mails directly from the pop3-Server and I found no file at spamassassin to put the pop3-address in.

As a friend and myself worked out back in 2001, the answer is to set up a filter telling KMail to invoke spamassassin (before v2), or spamc (v2 onwards) - it then pipes incoming mail through Spamassassin. Which is slower than doing it on the mailserver, but you can do it with an ISP pop3 account. See http://devel-home.kde.org/~kmail/tools.html for the details.

If it would be so, kmail could fetch the mails throug 'localhost' from spamassassin (I thought, but I don't know how?).

Only if you run your own local mail server and it has a public (permanent!) IP address (or maybe something like dyndns). Unless you're doing that, then there's really not much point in running your own mailserver, since no public server is going to be able to route mail to you. You certainly don't need to run a mailserver to use Spamassassin, though. Gideon. (of course, anyone who knows better is free to correct me here!)