Re: Bug?/questions about spamassassin

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:38:07AM -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> When I run the newest version of spamassassin (2.6.3-0.2) from the init.d 
> directory as user root, it hangs when I use "-u mailnull" as the options. 
> Or any other user (mail, etc), for that matter. Typing ./spamassassin 
> start with just the option above shows:
> 
> starting spamd:
> 
> And then it hangs.
> 
> Using the defaults with the software (-d -c -a -m5 -H) works fine, except 
> my incoming spam is labeled as [SPAM] in Pine. Is there any way, from the 
> spamassassin option command line above, to add an option to automatically 
> delete those incoming emails when they are detected to be spam? I'm sure 
> there is, but in my half-awake state and 2 hours on the spamassassin web 
> site, I'm not clear how to do it.
> 
> Thanks, as always, for any help!
> 
I think if you have procmail run spamassassin while it is run by
sendmail then you can  cause mail that has a [SPAM] in it to be saved
for later inspection. That is not deletion but the file you put it in
could ber removed periodically by a cron entry. Sounds klugey but it
should work.
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