On Thursday 09 October 2003 11:00 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I've had it! I've been spammed to the point that I don't even want to look at my mail. I want to set up spam assissin, or similar to kill all spam. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this. Is there a quick and dirty guide to getting it working? I have my own sendmail server as well as an account with my ISP, I pull my mail from the servers using fetchmail. My mail box type is what KMail calls "local" and it looks as though the queue is /var/mail/$USER.
I usually read my mail with KMail. I don't know if spamassassin will execute independently of KMail, or as a script invoked by KMail.
Yes, I will be looking at the docs, but if there is a simply three sentence howto that covers my situation, I'd love to see it.
STH
Someone else suggested called SA from procmailrc, and that is the best way. But if you're only doing POP from Kmail, then you can also call SA from Kmail. 1) Set up a filter that will always be hit. Something like looking for TO: in the headers. Use that filter to call SA. 2) Set up another filter to look for the SA flags, such as X-Spam-Status: Yes 3) Use that filter to move the email to a special folder (or to /dev/null) Careful using (3) for /dev/null. You can lose some good emails that way. Using fetchmail and procmail is best, but to set it up is not a '3 line' how-to deal. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 10/09/03 11:16 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive insane."