On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 15:46, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
I run spamd as a server daemon that interacts with my smtp mail server and a stub, spamc, that interacts with the perl based spamd daemon. That's my privilige, I have my own server and workstation all-in-one, an el Cheapo Compaq Presario notebook. How the perl-based standalone Spamassassin would interface with procmail or Evolution I don't know, 'cos I've never had to use that. There is a legion of configuration possibilities that would have to be integrated into Evo, and to make use of all the possibilities every user would have to make sure that his/her version of both Evo and Spamassassin was kept up to date.
Keeping Evo and SA up to date is a packing issue. I run Debian so after
having installed both packages and starting the daemon, adding this to
my .mailfilter file (I use maildrop as a MDA instead of procmail):
xfilter "/usr/bin/spamc"
if ( /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ )
{
to "Maildir/.Spam"
}
All spam is filtered into a folder called Spam.
The same can be achieved in procmail very trivially, but I can't recall
the syntax (procmail is foul :)
That there's need for such a utility is obvious. At $US 30 per seat for Outlook and a shameful Deersoft (the commercial Windows Spamassassin people) too shy to give a standard price for the server version, this could be a turnon for orgs wondering whether to go over to Linux.
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