Hi, That's funny mine works fine, I'm trapping a lot of messages into to spam folder.
Everything is stable, I do find the spamassassin to be slow though. Dave On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:11, Harry Wert wrote: > Ralph, > > My observations so far after four days of testing: > > First: I tried David's approach, but using spamassassin in that manner > creates an unstable system requiring frequent reboots to recover as both > the keyboard and display are locked out. I could never get it to run > long enough to fully evaluate. Setup was a dream however in terms of > evolution. Perhaps someone else can share their experiences with David's > approach on a SuSE 8.2 installation? > > Second: I tried your approach (spamc -c) and "piping" with great > success. So far I have "trapped" about 75 "spam" mailings with only one > error - pretty impressive. Also consider this: my ISP is earthlink.net, > which inserts a spam filter in series with all of my emails before I see > them, and has "stopped" delivery of an additional 56 "spam" emails in > addition to what I trapped. I attempted to turn off the earthlink > "spaminator" as they call it, but for whatever reason they will not > allow me to do that - instead I get an error message stating "we are > working on this feature, try again later". I will turn off their filter > for further testing just as soon as allowed and report back to this > list. For whatever reason your approach does NOT cause my system to go > unstable as I have not experienced any instability as yet. > > Thanks for your input, I am encouraged by the preliminary test results. > > Harry Wert > Physicist > > ============================================================= > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:13, Ralph Sanford wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 14:16, Harry Wert wrote: > > > Thank you very much David. I followed the instructions and now will test > > > the filter. Very clear I might add. > > > > > > Harry Wert > > > Physicist > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 15:43, David Clack wrote: > > > > http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/evolution.html > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 12:33, Harry Wert wrote: > > > > > I have a SuSE8.2 system running XD2 and Evolution 1.4.4 and > > > > > Spamassassin. My question is: Can anyone tell me how to set up > > > > > spamassassin to work with evolution or point me to a site which provides > > > > > that information? I have read the Man pages and done Google searches but > > > > > I can't seem to figure it out for myself. What I have done is made sure > > > > > spamd and spamc are installed. Then as su I start spamd, change to > > > > > regular user and start spamc. They produce no error messages but don't > > > > > seem to be intercepting any spam, what am I doing wrong? Do I need to be > > > > > doing something within Evolution? I have DSL account with earthlink, a > > > > > POP account for receiving, and SMTP for sending mail. I also have a > > > > > single user workstation. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > > > > > > > Harry > > > > > > > > > Let us know how this works for you. > > > > Using SuSE 8.2, spamassassin (spamd/spamc) and Evolution I have not been > > able to get spam headers written to my email messages. This is with > > Evolution retrieving the email directly from my ISP's pop.mail.server. > > My ISP does not pre-filter email with spamassassin so the messages are > > received without spam headers. > > > > What has worked for me is the following: > > > > 1. As root use the runlevel editor to turn on spamd for levels 3 and 5. > > > > 2. Also as root "rcspamd restart". (This gets it started.) > > > > 3. Change your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to ensure that a level is > > defined as spam i.e. required_hits 5 (This will likely need to be > > uncommented.) > > > > 4. Add a folder to Evolution called "spam" > > > > 5. Build a spamassassin filter. Have the filter "Pipe" messages to > > "spamc -c". Any messages that do not return a value of 0 are moved to > > the folder "spam". Then stop processing. > > > > This is the basic and simplest setup. The email headers are not > > modified, you simply filter out any messages that meet the minimum > > definition (5 hits in this case) of spam. I recommend placing the > > spamassassin filter after your mailing list filters. > > > > It can be refined beyond this, but try and get a basic setup first. > > > > I have 2 computers set up like this and in the last week spamassassin > > has probably collected ~700 spam, so far almost perfectly. This > > includes about 300 Sobig.F virus attempts in 2 hours that were treated > > as spam by spamassassin. > > > > HTH > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
