On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:22:17PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been following the discussion of spam flood, and decided to try > using spamassassin. I'm running a plain vanilla Sarge, with dialup. I > use fetchmail, exim, procmail, mutt. After apt-get install fetchmail > I look at README.Debian for instructions on what to do next. I see > "Please read the README for instructions on setting up your .procmailrc file." > I open up README.gz and search for procmail. The search fails. I read > README.gz and see that I need to look at the INSTALL file for how to > install spamassassin, but there is no INSTALL file. > > My question is: Having done apt-get install spamassassin, what do I > do next? Surely I need to read something and do some configuration, > but where are the directions? Where do I go next _within the Debian > environment_? > > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have exactly this same problem with an additional difficulty. My ISP allows two mailboxes. One I use for correspondance and access it with Mozilla and the second I use for the debian mailing list and I retrieve the postings with fetchmail and view them with mutt. When the ms mail bomb spam reached 70 per day I used apt-get to install spamassassin on my box (testing, 2.4.20 kernel) and found old correspondance which I had been saving has been deleted - not moved to trash - while there has been no effect on my mailing list mailbox. I started through the README's as above but have not been able to resolve the problems.
I plan to go to the spamassassin mailing list next but, seeing this message, I have added my experience. Tom George > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
