At 15:00 06-11-2008, Joe Dragotta wrote:
Not being very experienced in SA administration, I didn't know if SA
would process the same email twice, or if it kept track of message
IDs and only processed them once. Thusly, I needed to know whether
or not my originally described scenario would send the emails to SA
twice, and subsequently, if SA would filter them twice; which
apparently is the case.
The message would be processed twice. It won't be learned twice by
the Bayesian filter. SpamAssassin does content analysis. It doesn't
filter messages. When you pass a message to SpamAssassin, it
analyses the content and returns a score. In your case, it's
procmail that does the filtering by redirecting the message.
In any event, I am moving to use the spamd/c combination, in lieu of
invoking SA from procmail.
By using spamd, you avoid the startup overhead. spamc will pass the
message to the spamd daemon and get the result.
Regards,
-sm
