From: "jdow" <j...@earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 2009/September/15 20:06
From: "drkwc" <dr...@mindbodyspiritjournal.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 2009/September/15 17:33
New Spamassassin nb qs:
On the configuration panel, I have SpamAssassin set to mark as spam any
email scoring 5 or above.
Not within SpamAssassin.
I have a rule set in Outlook Express to route those to a SpamAssassin
SPAM
folder.
That is what I do because I like to review the low scores for possible
mismarked ham.
I use these two lines in my user_prefs file.
===8<---
required_hits 5.0
rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM***** _SCORE(00)_ **
===8<---
Then I can sort my spam folder by score quite nicely for that review.
I use procmail. So I could VERY easily develop a procmail rule to toss
the spam or divert it for training. I don't. But that's the place I would
have to do it if I did.
Now, I'm wondering, can I ALSO set the auto-delete function to delete --
at
server level -- any emails scoring 10 or higher. That would be really
convenient and would only deliver to my Outlook Express spam folder those
scoring lower than 10.
I use fetchmail to get mail. That feeds procmail. That feeds the mail
spool. Dovecot reads the mail spool and feeds OutlookDepress. So *I*
can do it at the server level before OE. Your configuration is probably
different. You might be able to do it if you have your own server. If
not, you can't.
I'd strongly recommend hacking something together with fetchmail and
some pop3 tool like dovecot. With procmail in the middle you can ruin
your brain as you figure it out. But then you can do really strange
things like rewrite message headers for this list so that the Reply-to
address becomes this list. {^_-} (Yeah, I am a sneaky bi<oops!>)
It's not clear to me that I can use both functions simultaneously. The
language on the Spam Assassin control panel says, for both functions,
"Set
the number of hits required before a mail is considered spam."
Ain't such a thing that is recognized by SpamAssassin. It sounds like
your setup is too warm and cuddly to be useful, IMAO. (And if you apply
SpamAssassin on each message as you read it from the ISP's servers your
punishment is insane delays and slowness.)
Am wondering if I can have two different settings. One for auto delete
and
another for marking and delivering emails?
But why? And how would you differentiate them?
With my setup I could use two .procmailrc files and use a script to
switch between them. "But why?"
{o.o}
As an addendum, I note that with .procmailrc files and the .fetchmailrc
configuration file I could apply a different procmailrc file for each
site and ID for which I pull email into my internal spools if that is
what you need.
{^_^}
