[ale] Spam and fetchmail

[Chris Fowler]

Thanks all for the help.  It seems to be working nicely.  I've got my
first spam message in ~/caughtspam.  I normally got around 100 spam
messages a day.  pulling those from inbox was a pain.

Chris

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:11, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I've not touched sendmail and I'm using fetchmail like this:
> 
> # fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> 
> I'm getting spamassasin executing but I'm still getting spam and nothing
> in the file ~/caughtspam
> 
> This is all that is in my ~.procmailrc
> 
> # Spam Assassin
> :0fw
> | spamassassin -P
> :0e
> {
>         EXITCODE=$?
> }
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
> 
> Do I need to train spamassassin or prime it in some way?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chis
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:03, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:24, Jason Day wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:38:05AM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This will store all suspected spam into a folder called "caughtspam".  I
> > > look at this folder every couple of days or so to check for false
> > > positives.  Depending on the mood I'm in, I sometimes forward them to
> > > spamcop.  I've done a few tricks with mutt to make this a little easier.
> > > 
> > > What's going wrong?  Are you using procmail, spamd, or something else?
> > 
> > All I'm using is fetchmail, imapd, and sendmail.  I have not even began
> > using procmail.  This box is also a relay for the network so I did not
> > want to screw things up my mucking with sendmail on port 25.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Jason
> > > -- 
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