Re: [Evolution] Spamassassin and evolution setup

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> 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. 

Sure, cause this is not possible.

Evolution has a filter to pipe a message to an external app -- that
means, the message is piped to the app, but Evolution only takes a
return value and not the output on STDOUT of that app.


To have those additional headers and info SA writes, you will need a
different approach, like fetchmail and procmail.


> 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.)

AFAIK this is default and uncommenting effectively does nothing. ;)


> 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.

Coincidence. SA is *not* expected to filter any virus.

...guenther


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