Per Jessen said the following on 06/16/2012 09:54 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
In fact procmail is a much better filtering tool than the filters built into *any* email reader/gui and could probably address your issues to do with putting messages in the right directories. I use it to do a level of spam filtering that spamassassin can't manage.
Anton, I'm curious - what extra filtering do you do with procmail that spamassassin can't do for you?
Procmail can do things that spamassassin can't. Rewriting and inserting headers is just one of them. There are many procmail recipes documented on the 'Net that you can review. Among the things I do with procmail - whitelist before submitting to spamassassin - blacklist before submitting to spamassassin procmail is already running before its going to submit the mail to spamd so make it do some work up front' - assign different levels/types of spam, degree of certainty to different folders or /dev/null Obviously a "40" goes to /dev/null and not the spambox! But some just over the threshold might not actually be spam, they might just have triggered on a keyword or awkward header - assign mailing lists & others to appropriate folders spamassassin doesn't do that and the GUI is a bit simplistic compared to what procmail can do. - deal with redirections and correct old/dead domains As I say, if you read over some of the more complex, more amazing procmail recipes you'll see that its a fabulous and flexible tool. How many of the things here http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html can you do with spamassassin? Perhaps this http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#moniker partially answers a question previously asked. -- The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ... think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. -- Robert Collier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org