At Sun Aug 3 14:32:12 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:14:08PM +0100, Martin Radford wrote: > > Using SpamAssassin to scan mails on the spamassassin-talk mailing list > > is a bad idea, since many of the messages there will look more spammy > > than "normal" mail. > > Definitely. Is there a way I can correct that? > I use procmail. I have no idea how it works.
The relevant bit of my .procmailrc: :0fw:spamassassin.lock * !^Subject: .*SAtalk * !^Subject: .*Razor-users | spamc This translates to: "if the subject header does not contain 'SAtalk' and it does not contain 'Razor-users', then send the mail through spamc". > > ... and you'll seriously pollute your Bayes database. You might well > > find your system thinks that the word "penis" is actually a > > ham-indicator, rather than being indicative of spam! > > Tell me if I'm wrong. My Bayes database won't be polluted as long as I > don't feed messages from this list to SA, right? Correct. > > I use procmail, and tell it not to bother sending mail to this list to > > spamc. > > Can you tell me how to do that? See above. Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
