Re: Spamassassin

[Adam Huffman <verdurin f2s com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 14:38, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:46, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Is anyone using this?  Is there more to installing and just starting the
> > daemon to work?  As in, a config file to modify it or anything?  Or does
> > it just start working and checks the emails that come into the server
> > (no matter how you retreive them, via pop, imap, etc)?
> > 
> > Yes, I have read the man page for it, but it's not too detailed that I
> > can see.
> 

> 
> If anyone out there has some simple recipes for just getting started
> with either of the scenarios I mentioned (postfix/spamassassin or
> evolution/spamassassin both with Bayesian spam identification) I'd
> really be interested in hearing about them.
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
To enable spamassassin, if you are receiving mail locally, simply add
this line to your ~/.procmailrc:
INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-default.rc
 
To filter spam for all users, add that line to /etc/procmailrc
(creating if necessary).


This information taken from the output of rpm -qi spamassassin

I've been using this successfully for a few weeks now.