[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a novice with spamassassin. I am having a problem getting my > arms around several concepts. Here are several questions. > > In looking at the local.cf, I see that the threshhold for marking a > piece of mail as spam is 5. Can I have this mail deleted instead of > being sent to the user? SpamAssassin cannot do this directly, as it has no control over the message envelope. If SA were to try, most mail tools would assume it errored and recover the original, unscanned, message.
However, lots of mail tools that do have control of the envelope can be configured to delete the message, properly, if they see SA's marked it as spam.. Thus, the answer here depends on what other tools you're using in your mail processing. Generally folks use procmail rules to do this, but there are lots of other ways depending on what you've got in your setup.. > > > In the /usr/share/spamassassin directory there are a number of cf > files. Does spamassassin use all these files as tests as a default > setting? Yes, unless there's a newer directory created by sa-update. (ie: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_org/) > If not, how do I make sure they are used? spamassassin --lint -D will, among other things, list every file SA reads, assuming you've got a reasonably recent version of SA.
