On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Michael DeSimone wrote:
> Knowing exactly what SA does to flagged mail would also be nice - can I make
> it bounce?
SpamAssassin is kind of like Statler & Waldorf, the old guys who sat in
the high box seats and made catcalls in the old "Muppet Show" -- like S&W,
SA does nothing more than sit on the sidelines and shout out its opinion
on the quality of what it's seeing.
It's up to you then to have some other piece of mail handling software to
accept or reject this opinion as you see fit.
If your mail is on a machine running Procmail, you can use it to sort SA
flagged spam into a special folder (the recommended approach, since
Mistakes Will Be Made), or have it automatically deleted or forwarded to
different spam reporting organizations.
If you don't have access to Procmail, or don't have the patience to puzzle
it out, most modern mail clients have some degree of filtering ability --
even Lotus Notes! You seem to be using Outlook Express, which should have
decent filtering abilities. You need to train your mail client (OE etc) to
look for certain header features.
The headers that SA adds or manipulates are "X-Spam-Flag" (look for
'YES'), X-Spam-Level: (a simple bar graph that indicates how strongly the
mail in question resembles SA's idea of spam), X-Spam-Report (which breaks
down why the message was scored the way it was, good or bad), and the
message Subject (which might or might not have special text added,
depending on if you have the default SA setup or it has been customized).
The easiest thing to do is have OE to look for "X-Spam-Flag: YES" in the
headers, and move these mails into a special folder for handling.
More details are available on Spamassassin.org's site, or by skimming over
your local documentation with e.g. "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf".
Well composed messages to the list will usually get help too :)
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