Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd
> like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add
>
> :0fw: spamassassin.lock
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
>
> to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to
> /var/mail/<username>, rather than following the rest of my procmail
> recipes.
Rich's answer is right. You need the "-P" option for the stable
version of SpamAssassin, and you don't need a lock, so the complete
rule should read:
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P
As an extra bit of advice, you might want to consider upgrading to the
version in "unstable" instead (which, by the way, doesn't need the
"-P" option). A while back, I decided to give SpamAssassin a try to
see if it did a better job than the homespun rules that I'd
accumulated over the last few years. I installed the 2.20-1woody
version from stable, and I was very disappointed. It missed almost
everything. For me, it was essentially useless.
Before tossing SpamAssassin entirely in the bit bucket, I decided to
give it a second chance by installing 2.55-3 from unstable. It was
like night and day. The newer version does a much, much better job.
The 2.55-3 source package builds fine on a vanilla Woody machine. (In
fact, the unstable "spamassassin" binary package would install fine on
a vanilla Woody system, too, except it has an apparently unnecessary
dependency on "spamc" which depends on the unstable C library.)
--
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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