[ale] Spam and fetchmail

[Jason Day]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:38:05AM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> So you get your email from youe ISP with fetchmail, then spamassassin
> cleans it up and then you can access it locally?

Exactly.  Currently, I have fetchmail setup to connect to my smtp port
and inject the messages.  I've also had it use procmail directly as the
mta.  Either way, procmail is what executes spamassassin for me.  Here's
the relevant portion of my ~/.procmailrc:

# Spam Assassin
:0fw
| spamassassin -P

:0e
{
    EXITCODE=$?
}

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam


This will store all suspected spam into a folder called "caughtspam".  I
look at this folder every couple of days or so to check for false
positives.  Depending on the mood I'm in, I sometimes forward them to
spamcop.  I've done a few tricks with mutt to make this a little easier.

> 
> I've been working on getting that same process, with one additional
> step, and it just isn't happening. The additional step is to filter the
> email through f-prot virus scanner. The receiving clients all use
> windbloze outbreak express as mail clients. Between the spam and the
> bugs, it's amazing they can get anything done. 

What's going wrong?  Are you using procmail, spamd, or something else?

Jason
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