I'm using Spamassassin locally as you described and it's working great. I just have a crap load of old emails that I can't just nuke. I'll stop being lazy and come up with a solution.
Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Simple spamassassin question > > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:45, Reginald Reed wrote: > > What is the easiest way to have spamassassin process a > sendmail mbox > > file moving spam to another mbox file? I know this has to be > > incredibly simple, but I thought I'd check here first before I dove > > in. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Well, spamassassin doesn't generally do the moving (I think > it can, but there are much better tools to do that). > Generally, spamassassin just tags the spam (or not spam) and > then procmail is given the job of saving it to a different > folder. For example, I filter my mail through spamassassin > and then let procmail direct it like this: > > # Catch spam :-) > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > caughtspam > > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES > caughtspam > > This takes anything with the header "X-Spam-Status: Yes" or > "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and saves it into the caughtspam folder. > > If your site isn't using spamassassin sitewide, you can add > these lines in your ~/.procmailrc *before* the above lines to > filter through spamassassin: > > # Tag Spam > :0fw > | /usr/bin/spamassassin -P > > (Make sure, of course, you put the correct path to the spamassassin > binary.) > > Cheers, > Tanner > -- > Tanner Lovelace | lovelace(at)wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ > --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- > GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E > DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at > http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc > > --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- > This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source > people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security > threat. -- Bruce Sterling > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
