-----Original Message-----
From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 August 2005 09:52
To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Not delivering Spam with Procmail
On Monday 08 August 2005 11:29 pm, Joe Borg wrote:
> Hi,
> I've setup procmail so as to not deliver mails with a Spam score of 10 or
> greater, as follows:
>
> #Mail that scores 10 or more is not delivered to users.
>
> :0
>
> * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
> /var/spool/mail/spam
>
> As may be observed from the above, mails with a Spam score of 10 or
greater
> should be delivered to a special mailbox /var/spool/mail/spam. So far,
> however, only one spam mail has been delivered to this mailbox. Moreover,
> spam that should have ended up in this mailbox (such as one with the
header
> below) is instead still being delivered to the user mailboxes.
>
> X-Spam-Level: ****************
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=16.2 required=5.0
>
> I find this behaviour very odd. Does anyone know what I should do to get
> this to work properly?
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
Its easier not to try to count asterisks...
------------Sample procmailrc portion
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status:.*score=[1-9][0-9]
{
:0
/dev/null
}
-------------end sample
You may want to send them to other than /dev/null
but for my home machine anything that scores 10
or more is something I don't want to see.
--
_____________________________________
John Andersen
Thanks for the info John. With your suggestions and, after some meddling
with the mailbox permission (procmail didn't have enough permissions to
write), it seems to be working now. Thanks again.
joe
