----- Original Message ----- From: "Bijan Soleymani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:20:03PM +0200, JZidar wrote: > > OK. How can I do that? Google didn't return anything really useful. > > Ok here's a (somewhat detailed) step by step. > > 1) set up fetchmail to download your mail from your pop account onto > your local computer. > > a) apt-get install fethcmail > b) this is my ~/.fetchmailrc: > > poll pop.psq.com protocol pop3 username [EMAIL PROTECTED] password ******** > poll mail.crasseux.com protocol pop3 username trustno1 password ******** > > Adapt this to your account. > > c) either run fetchmail by hand each time you want to retrieve mail or > d) add an entry in your personal crontab > Mine is: > * * * * * fetchamil &> /dev/null > Which runs fetchmail once a minute. > > 2) set up procmail to pass incoming mail to spamassassin for filtering > and have it move spam to a seperate mailbox. > > procmail should already be installed but if not: > apt-get install procmail > > This is what my ~/.procmailrc file looks like: > > #Use spamassassin to flag spam. Note I usually use spamc instead of > #spamassasin for better performance. > :0fw > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > > #Move flagged spam into the spam folder. > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Spam > > #Handle mailing lists > :0 > * ^X-Mailing-List.*debian > /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Debian > > :0 > * ^List-Id:.*hurd > /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Hurd > > :0 > * ^TO.*ICEBIKE > /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.Icebike > > :0 > * ^TO.*mlug > /home/bijan/IMAP/INBOX.MLUG > > > 3) install an imap or pop server on your computer. I like IMAP because > it allows me to check my mail from the road. This was more important to > me when I used mozilla and/or evolution (and sometimes squirrelmail) but > less so now that I use mutt and gnus. > > I like uw-imapd because it doesn't require much setup. > > a) apt-get install uw-imapd > b) add the names of the mbox (mailbox) files you want to the file > ~/.mailboxlist > Here's mine: > INBOX > IMAP/INBOX.Hurd > IMAP/INBOX.Icebike > IMAP/INBOX.MLUG > IMAP/INBOX.Sent > IMAP/INBOX.Spam > IMAP/INBOX.Trash > IMAP/INBOX.Drafts > Trash > Sent > IMAP/INBOX.Debian > > 4) set up evolution to use your local imap or pop server > This should be no problem. > > I hope that clears things up, > Bijan Thank you very much! I'm on it! Jernej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
