Re: [Evolution] Spamassassin and evolution setup

[Harry Wert <hwert earthlink net>]

Ralph,

My observations so far after four days of testing:

First: I tried David's approach, but using spamassassin in that manner
creates an unstable system requiring frequent reboots to recover as both
the keyboard and display are locked out. I could never get it to run
long enough to fully evaluate. Setup was a dream however in terms of
evolution. Perhaps someone else can share their experiences with David's
approach on a SuSE 8.2 installation?

Second: I tried your approach (spamc -c) and "piping" with great
success. So far I have "trapped" about 75 "spam" mailings with only one
error - pretty impressive. Also consider this: my ISP is earthlink.net,
which inserts a spam filter in series with all of my emails before I see
them, and has "stopped" delivery of an additional 56 "spam" emails in
addition to what I trapped.  I attempted to turn off the earthlink
"spaminator" as they call it, but for whatever reason they will not
allow me to do that - instead I get an error message stating "we are
working on this feature, try again later". I will turn off their filter
for further testing just as soon as allowed and report back to this
list. For whatever reason your approach does NOT cause my system to go
unstable as I have not experienced any instability as yet.

Thanks for your input, I am encouraged by the preliminary test results.

Harry Wert
Physicist

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On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:13, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 14:16, Harry Wert wrote:
> > Thank you very much David. I followed the instructions and now will test
> > the filter. Very clear I might add.
> >
> > Harry Wert
> > Physicist
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 15:43, David Clack wrote:
> > > http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/evolution.html
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 12:33, Harry Wert wrote:
> > > > I have a SuSE8.2 system running XD2 and Evolution 1.4.4 and
> > > > Spamassassin. My question is: Can anyone tell me how to set up
> > > > spamassassin to work with evolution or point me to a site which provides
> > > > that information? I have read the Man pages and done Google searches but
> > > > I can't seem to figure it out for myself. What I have done is made sure
> > > > spamd and spamc are installed. Then as su I start spamd, change to
> > > > regular user and start spamc. They produce no error messages but don't
> > > > seem to be intercepting any spam, what am I doing wrong? Do I need to be
> > > > doing something within Evolution? I have DSL account with earthlink, a
> > > > POP account for receiving, and SMTP for sending mail. I also have a
> > > > single user workstation.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > > >
> > > > Harry
>
> Let us know how this works for you.  
>
> Using SuSE 8.2, spamassassin (spamd/spamc) and Evolution I have not been
> able to get spam headers written to my email messages.  This is with
> Evolution retrieving the email directly from my ISP's pop.mail.server. 
> My ISP does not pre-filter email with spamassassin so the messages are
> received without spam headers.
>
> What has worked for me is the following:
>
> 1. As root use the runlevel editor to turn on spamd for levels 3 and 5.
>
> 2. Also as root "rcspamd restart".  (This gets it started.)
>
> 3. Change your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to ensure that a level is
> defined as spam i.e. required_hits   5  (This will likely need to be
> uncommented.)
>
> 4. Add a folder to Evolution called "spam"
>
> 5. Build a spamassassin filter.  Have the filter "Pipe" messages to
> "spamc -c".  Any messages that do not return a value of 0 are moved to
> the folder "spam".  Then stop processing. 
>
> This is the basic and simplest setup.  The email headers are not
> modified, you simply filter out any messages that meet the minimum
> definition (5 hits in this case) of spam.  I recommend placing the
> spamassassin filter after your mailing list filters.
>
> It can be refined beyond this, but try and get a basic setup first.
>
> I have 2 computers set up like this and in the last week spamassassin
> has probably collected ~700 spam, so far almost perfectly.  This
> includes about 300 Sobig.F virus attempts in 2 hours that were treated
> as spam by spamassassin.
>
> HTH