[TriLUG] Simple spamassassin question

[Tanner Lovelace]

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
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