-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2014-08-21 at 12:00 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
One reason I have spamassassin in procmail rather than up front in Postfix is that I have many procmail rules BEFORE I apply spamassassin.
* if the ISP has already labelled it is SPAM then put it in the SpamBox right away
I don't. Often, the ISP does the wrong checking, so I let SA have a chance at correcting it. On my telefonica accounts, I explicitly tell fetchmail to also fetch from the spam folder, so that I can verify it, and also to reduce what is stored on the ISP server, that doesn't allow a big storage. On the other hand, google does a quite good filtering, but not always.
* if its for any one of a number of lists that I subscribe to, the put it in the list folder right away.
Again, I don't: I see spam email on several of the mail lists. On some I get a lot (the xfs mail list, for instance). So I let SA check.
Having bracketed list markers on the subject line is nice :-)
I don't look at them at all. I look at the "X-Mailinglist" header instead.
* if its not in English, put it in the ForeignBox right away
I'm bilingual, so I have to handle emails it two languages every day. I don't sort by language.
* if it meets a pile of garbage conditions them put it in the SpamBox
* if its from a 'whitelist' of senders don't bother with spamassassin (yes I know spamassassin has a whitelist; this is faster)
But not as precise; and it is easier to maintain SA than a huge lot of procmail recipes (and I have a lot).
All this relieves SpamAssassin of a lot of processing. However you cut it, SpamAssassin is a choke-point. Only using it when I have to relieves a big load.
I find it easier to let it run and do its job, that have me thinking and adjusting rules and filters all the time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlP33v4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UM4gCgg9DfbfDvJR5OiqwUt9MiZIuX 4J0An2L0jlsRwF6WObjC8VG/nazxU0Bs =iZ+Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org