dougp23 wrote:
I am searching the forums, but some of this is just beyond me!
Just setup a new email server, with sendmail and spamassassin and
spamass-milter, etc.
Because the system is new, and the bayes hasn't gotten a lot of practice yet
(but it will!!) we are getting lots of spam.
So my questions:
How do I identify spam with something from the body of the message? (i.e.
Viagra in the message, or Nigeria from that very kind man who has all that
money and just needs a little cash to get started).
And then how do I route those messages off to a junk folder??
I have seen all sorts of scripts, but really, the only one I know is
local.cf. So if you can explain what to do in real basic terms, I would be
very gracious. (sort of: add this line to this file, point to this script.
in this script have this text, etc etc.)
Much thanks! Excellent site! I am already seeing SA marking messages as
SPAM, but I want them to just get dumped!
Can sendmail work with maildir folders now? When I started on my quest
for e-mail nirvana (a number of years ago) I found that sendmail
wouldn't support folders (maildir) so I quickly stared using qmail. My
system looks like this:
fetchmail-->qmail(rocks)-->procmail
where qmail(rocks) is:
qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin+clamav+courier and a few other nifty
little things.
I don't really run a domain; I just use this to consolidate, scrub, sort
and re-serv (IMAP) e-mail from various accounts.
It's the job of spamassassin to analyze the message (header and body)
for tell-tail signs of being spam When it finds someting, it adds a crap
load of new fields to message header that other programs can then look
at. As far as getting junk to automagically go to a junk folder, use an
MDA that support folders like procmail or maildrop. Basically you make a
rule that looks at the *X-SPAM-STATUS* header field; if it = yes, then
move it to the junk folder.
For Procmail, it looks like this:
:0
* $(^From|^Subject):.*${MAGAZINE}
{
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
{
:0
*X-Spam-Status:.*autolearn=no
.Junk/
:0
.Trash/
}
:0
.e-magazine/
}
Take a look at qmailrocks.org for a step-by-step installation guide on
getting it setup.
Cheers
