Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:29 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > >>What I want to do is filter out spam, especially for my youngest, who is >>fast approaching 10 years of age (man, I'm getting old...). So, for >>that, I assume that I need procmail. But, if I start using procmail, >>what happens to the mail that sendmail distributes to >>/var/spool/mail/<user>? Doesn't procmail process the mail and put it in >>/home/<user>/mbox? Or can I control where procmail puts stuff? If I use >>procmail to process the mail, can I still retrieve it via POP from the >>Internet? Is there a better way to process the mail to remove spam? >> > > By all means get Spamassassin..... look at spamassassin.sourceforge.net I > think or do a google search on spamassassin. > > It is excellent. I spent many years writting my own spam filter programs and > never came close to what SA does... It gives every email a score based on > anything from 'bad words' to being in HTML format to checking the sender > against several blocking DB's... etc etc etc. and it is totally tailorable. > > The normal threshold for spam is 5 points... below that it gets delivered. > I put everything from 5 to 10 points into a special mailbox to look at. > (might be some good mail in there but hardly ever) Everything 10 and above > I now send to /dev/null. In the last two weeks I've sent 709 emails to > /dev/null. Don't even have to bother with them. > > The instructions for SA even give you the procmail recipe for use with SA. > It's a no brainer. >
OK, spamassasin. Do I need a working procmail to use spamassasin, or can it be used with just sendmail (off I go to the Spam Assasin web page...)? Thanks again for your help, Bruce. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
