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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:17:53 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: procmail and anti-spam
Message-ID:  <B89FE684-1BF0-11D7-AE80-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021230120513.GA22540@nagual.st>

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On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 04:05  AM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
>> Take a look at spamprobe in /usr/ports/mail/spamprobe.  It uses
>> Bayesian analysis and catches about 99% of the spam I get (and I get 
>> a *ton*).  Also see http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamprobe/ for 
>> more information.
>
> Everybody who reacted I say "thank you!"
> I'm gonna try a few filter programs to see what does the job best.
> Beginning with spamassassin (of maybe spamoracle or spamprobe).
>
> In all cases I have to adjust the local mailer statement in my
> sendmail. It runs the way it came out-of-the-box (fbsd-4.7R)
> Local mail is *not* delivered by procmail by default.
>
> I think I have to put the following lines into sendmail.mc
>
> define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')
> FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')
> MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
> Am I right about this or do I put them in submit.mc?

Spamprobe doesn't require any changes to sendmail, you only need to 
tweak your .procmailrc.

- jim

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jim mock <mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org>               jim@FreeBSD.org


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