[Fwd: Re: [Evolution] spam filtering via evo with an alternate mailbox?]

[Tom Cooper <tom_cooper bigfoot com>]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> First off, let me say, my incoming mailbox, which I've switched to
> ~/mail/mybox, is huge.  I'm trying to set a good example for my
> endusers, by not leaving this large quantity of mail in my maildrop,
> /var/mail/strombrg.
>   
I just went through this process, and have been quite successful.
> Anyway, I set up a filter which "Pipes message to shell command"
> spamassassin -e (with a hard path), and refiles the message if there's a
> nonzero exit status to my "evospam" folder.
>
> It's not working.  I'm bummed.  I get HUGE quantities of spam.
>
>   
I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but I handle this by using procmail
to move my mail from the mailspool to ~/mail/MyMail  Along the way,
Procmail does some analysis and them invokes spamassassin to check the
mail for spam.   This seems to work, particularly since I've got a great
body of spam with which to train spamassassin.  I'm still getting some
spam, but this process has helped!

Here's one stanza of my .procmailrc:

:0fw:spamassassin.lock
| spamassassin

:0e
{
  EXITCODE=$?
}

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Flag: Yes
subfolders/caughtspam

I hope that this helps!  Please let me know if you need more information
about this.

Regards,
Tom Cooper

I picked up this and a bunch of other tips at the following sites:
http://bradthemad.ath.cx/tech/hacks/procmail_tricks.php
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail
http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/help/email/UnixProcmail.html
-- 
Tom Cooper <tom_cooper bigfoot com>