Doh! Left out the URL: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/evo-antispam-filter.html
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:54, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I wrote up how I used to set up spamassassin off of evolution "before > evolution had spamassassin support", when I was going back to hanging > spamassassin off of procmail, instead of off of evolution. > > Hanging spamassassin off of procmail, you still have slow spamassassin > runs, but they don't slow down evolution. > > Anyway, here's the web page on how I used to do it off of evolution, > which you likely can modify slightly for crm114. > > BTW, a local mailing list is saying that greylistd and/or postgrey are > easier to set up and more effective than most other antispam solutions, > including spamassassin. Anyone here tried it? > > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 21:22, Vaidotas Zemlys wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tr, 2004-10-13 at 21:52 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:17 -0500, Eric Lambart wrote: > > > > > > > What you say here seems to imply that you had some spam filtering > > > > enabled with Evo versions < 1.5 (1.5 being the pre-release versions of > > > > 2.0) ?? If so, maybe you have older spam filtering set up, which is > > > > interfering with Evo 2.x's own filtering? > > > > > > yup as I have been following evo for a long long time I cannot even > > > remember when I started using spamassassin for it. > > > > > > > > One thing I'd do is make sure the spamassassin daemon is running in the > > > > background. Go to your shell prompt and type "ps -aef | grep spam". > > > > You should see something like this: > > > > [~]$ ps -aef | grep spam > > > > root 858 1 0 09:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -L > > > > ron 2535 2491 0 11:11 pts/9 00:00:00 grep spam > > > > > > > It's running and it's eating CPU like nothing before. This is one thing > > > that really bothers me. Filtering a measly 100 mails takes 7 minutes. I > > > timed it. > > > > > Yes that is the spamassasin fault. It is slow. I've been using > > spamassasin for scanning my mail and in the end I dumped it, because it > > was painfully slow. Now I use crm114, which leads to my question, is it > > possible to use other spam filtering program with evolution instead of > > spamassasin? I get all my email through > > fetchmail->postfix->procmail->crm114 chain which lands all my non spam > > messages in my local mailbox in /var/mail/ and all spam messages in mbox > > ~/tmp/SPAM/crm. I created another account to check if any nonspam > > messages are filtered as spam, but it would be nice if I could configure > > Evolution to direct all my spam to Junk folder. So is it possible, or > > spamassasin support is hard-coded into evolution? > > > > Vaidotas Zemlys -- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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