On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 19:01, Not Zed wrote:
> you probably have to just do ctrl-a ctrl-y to kick it off.  if you've
> got a big inbox, it could take a while to run.

This appears to filter the entire folder.  If I had a normal folder, it
would be a good solution.  Sadly, I currently have 21634 messages in my
folder (approx 3 months of mail - I have a cron job which deletes
anything older than 3 months, and don't explicitly delete mail much so I
can refer back), so running spamassassin on each of them takes quite a
long time.

> filtering will only be applied automatically, when told to, for recent
> messages.  its kind of server dependent what recent means (and kind of
> actually badly specified too), but if you're using the one client on a
> given server it should work fairly reliably.

It'd be better if there were a way to automatically filter all new
messages as they show up in my main folder, but I could settle for a way
of only applying the filtering to messages since a particular date...

> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:59 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: 
> > First off, let me say, my incoming mailbox, which I've switched to
> > ~/mail/mybox, is huge.  I'm trying to set a good example for my
> > endusers, by not leaving this large quantity of mail in my maildrop,
> > /var/mail/strombrg.
> > 
> > We used to have antispam via spamassassin on our mailserver, but we had
> > to turn it off, because it was loading the poor old machine up so much
> > that it had ypserv problems.  Why ypserv is so flakey is a story for
> > another night.
> > 
> > Anyway, I set up a filter which "Pipes message to shell command"
> > spamassassin -e (with a hard path), and refiles the message if there's a
> > nonzero exit status to my "evospam" folder.
> > 
> > It's not working.  I'm bummed.  I get HUGE quantities of spam.
> > 
> > Anyway, if I save one of these new spam messages into /tmp/msg, and then
> > run spamassassin -e < /tmp/msg (with a hard path again), I get an exit
> > status of 5, which would seem to be what evo needs to do its thing, no?
> > 
> > I also clicked "tools/settings/receiving options/apply filters to INBOX
> > on this server".
> > 
> > Do I have to leave my mail in my maildrop(/var/mail/strombrg) for this
> > to work properly?
> > 
> > I'm using an sslified uwimapd, if that makes any difference.
> > 
> > I'm eager to switch to dovecot, possibly with maildir, but I have to
> > find the time somewhere.
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> 
> Michael Zucchi
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Ximian Evolution and
> Free Software Developer
> 
> 
> Novell, Inc.
-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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