On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:02:06 -0800, Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > --On Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:46 PM -0300 Ceva > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( >> procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start >> spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail? > Nope, you need to tell sendmail or procmail to scan the message. Simply > installing SA is like installing (sorry for the analogy) Microsoft Word - > let's say you want to spell check a document - you need to open Word.
Hmm, doubtful analogy. More like if you've installed an oven, you still need somebody to do the cooking? Or like you have installed a spelling checker in Word, but you actually need to tell Word to check spelling in order for the spell checker to do anything. The page <http://useast.spamassassin.org/where.html> has some links to packages which allow you to integrate SA into Sendmail but the simplest approach, as explained on <http://useast.spamassassin.org/sitewide.html>, is to install an /etc/procmailrc and then just make sure your Sendmail runs Procmail as your LDA. I believe this is the case with any newish standard Sendmail installation but I haven't had access to a Sendmail system for some time now. Ask in a Sendmail forum if you need help. Perhaps the documentation ought to explain these things a little bit better? I browsed through the INSTALL / USAGE / README files looking for something I could RTFM Ceva over the head with, but I couldn't find anything really obvious. >> $ spamassassin < some_email_file.txt >> Is "some_email_file.txt" a rule file? > some_email_file.txt is a generic name for a file - if you have a > file called some_email_file.txt and run spamassassin < some_.... > the output will be that mail with the SA headers inserted. So no, the file should contain some email, like the name implies. Here's an example: $ cat >/tmp/some_email_file·txt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: furr33 w4r3z !!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!! dfgjopwetq Date: Thu, 31 Feb 2038 24:00:00 -0700 http://www.hotmail.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/%65%72%61/ ^D $ spamassassin </tmp/some_email_file.txt ... output from spamassassin goes here ... /* era */ -- The email address era the contact information Just for kicks, imagine at iki dot fi is heavily link on my home page at what it's like to get spam filtered. If you <http://www.iki.fi/era/> 500 pieces of spam for want to reach me, see instead. each wanted message. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
