[ale] Spam and fetchmail

[Chris Fowler]

How did you get spamassassin to work after fetchmail did its thing?


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:38, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> So you get your email from youe ISP with fetchmail, then spamassassin
> cleans it up and then you can access it locally?
> 
> I've been working on getting that same process, with one additional
> step, and it just isn't happening. The additional step is to filter the
> email through f-prot virus scanner. The receiving clients all use
> windbloze outbreak express as mail clients. Between the spam and the
> bugs, it's amazing they can get anything done. 
> 
> Well, the nt4 server they do file sharing on that has no antivirus
> software doesn't help.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:24, Jason Day wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:37:10AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > Is anyone using fetchmail with a spam deletion program?  I just got
> > > fetchmail and imap configured.  Now I want to elimante some spam.
> > 
> > I've been using spamassassin[1] for a few months now.  It works pretty
> > well.  Occasionally a spam will seep through, and I just forward it
> > straight to spamcop.  The only false positives I've got have been either
> > posts to bugtraq containing javascript exploits, or mail from someone
> > using an ISP listed in razor.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.spamassassin.org/
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