Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:46:23 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshualokken@attbi.com> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can someone explain how to enable spam assassin? Message-ID: <20030412004623.GA84030@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030411095411.01e52ec0@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030411095411.01e52ec0@pop.voyager.net>
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* Dragoncrest (dragoncrest@voyager.net) wrote:
==> I've looked through all the readme's, I've looked through the as
==> many tutorials and man pages as I can find and even the emails from this
==> list. Everyone tells me to do something different. Yet nothing seems to
==> work. Can someone please either point me to, or write out a very simple
==> how to on setting up my system from install of spam assassin to setting up
==> procmail and making sure I got everything? Thanks.
I use spamassassin with procmail. Attached is the default procmailrc that is
provided when spamassassin is installed. I have edited it very little. This
should help you get going.
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Joshua
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".procmailrc.0"
LINEBUF=4096
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SpamAssassin sample procmailrc
#
# Pipe the mail through spamassassin (replace 'spamassassin' with 'spamc'
# if you use the spamc/spamd combination)
#
# The condition line ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB
# (250 * 1024 = 256000 bytes) are processed by SpamAssassin. Most spam
# isn't bigger than a few k and working with big messages can bring
# SpamAssassin to its knees.
#
# The lock file ensures that only 1 spamassassin invocation happens
# at 1 time, to keep the load down.
#
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamassassin
# Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with 0.05%
# false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's put them in a
# different mbox. (This one is optional.)
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
almost-certainly-spam
# All mail tagged as spam (eg. with a score higher than the set threshold)
# is moved to "probably-spam".
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
probably-spam
# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in "From"
# to be dropped. This will re-add it.
:0
* ^^rom[ ]
{
LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "
:0 fhw
| sed -e '1s/^/F/'
}
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