Re: [Evolution] Spam filtering with spamassassin.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

echo $?

that will tell you the exit code of the program.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:32, Alexander Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
>       As an experiment, I tried to set up spam filtering in the following
> way:
>
> 1. I made a "incoming" filter (called "spam filter").
> 2. The filter pipes the message to the shell command /usr/bin/spamc -c
> and should fire if it doesn't return 0. (This is spamassassin which, I
> believe, returns a 1 (with the -c flag) if it thinks the message is
> spam.)
> 3. If the criterion is met, it should move the message to a spam folder.
>
> Well, the long and short of it is that nothing happens; messages are
> never moved to the spam folder. I have experimented with several
> potential messages, and I think that spamc -c is working. Any ideas?
>
> I read mail via (s)imap, which presumably affect the way that filters
> are applied. In any case, the above doesn't work even if I manually hit
> "apply filters".
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> N.b. spamc -c returns a string like 4.8/5 to stout, how can I check that
> the return value of this process is indeed a 1?
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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