I got a combination I'm happy with, but switching to dovecot+maildir, which put my inbox in my homedir, and allowed evo to initiate the filtering (apparently because I stopped changing the name of my incoming mail folder).
I didn't want to do procmail filtering on my desktop box, because we normally use a stunted sendmail.cf that passes mail messages to the mail hub for processing, and I want to keep that option open. On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:57, Dan Stromberg wrote: > 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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