Hi folks, I've just joined having finally got around to installing SA on my system running SuSE 8.2. It's taken a bit of Googling to get things going, especially with having to edit the init.d script for SuSE 8.2. So I just want to check that I'm on the right track.
SA and spamd/spamc all seem to be installed fine and running. I use Kmail and have set up a filter to pipe mail through spamc, and that seems to be happening fine too. However, I receive mail in a couple of ways. I have lots of email addresses. With some I download directly from POP3 servers using Kmail, so that's straightforward. With others, I use Fetchmail (run as a cron job) to retrieve from POP3 servers. For the most part (though not exclusively) I then use Kmail to read this mail. Now, if I set up .procmailrc for each user to run incoming mail through SA, that means it's going to get checked a second time when I read the email with Kmail - is that right? I've set up a filter in Kmail which sits just above the one that pipes mail through spamc. This filter looks for the header 'X-Spam-Checker-Version' to see if it contains 'SpamAssassin' and if so, writes a new header (pretty arbitrary, just to give it something to do) and stops. I *think* this should prevent the mail getting run through SA again because it shouldn't reach that filter. Am I on the right track, or is there a more elegant way to do this? BTW, this is a personal system running as a mail server for a home network (5 users). Any recommendations for web sites that give a definitive guide to running SA in language that a non-geek like me can understand would be most welcome. I guess at some point I'm going to want to starting tweaking stuff. @+ Steve
