Spamassassin in evolution

[Charles Howse]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03:41 pm, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:35, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:22, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > On Sunday 01 February 2004 11:44 am, WA9ALS - John wrote:
> > > > > filter.  However, I am getting _all_ emails marked as spam.  I have
> > > > > gone to spamassassin.org to try to figure out what is going on, but
> > > > > their docs are terrible.
> > > >
> > > > A good thing there though is info about the Spamassassin mailing list
> > > > - No doubt they can help you with any specific questions.  Lots of
> > > > good info about new rules etc too.  - John
> > >
> > > I'm getting in late on this thread, sorry.
> > >
> > > I visited spamassassin.org, and it looks like spamassassin would not
> > > help a user who gets his mail from his ISP's mail server.  In other
> > > words, unless I run my own smtp and pop servers, spamassassin is not an
> > > option.  Is that correct?
> >
> > No.  I use SA with Evo and have my e-mail from three different ISP
> > accounts filtered.
> >
> > I have SA version 2.63 in conjunction with Evo 1.4.5
> >
> > I have a shell file with the following command:
>
> Sorry.  Accidentally hit the send button.
>
> Anyway, I have the following in a shell file:
>
> spamc -c
>
> In the Evo filters, I have one set up to "Pipe Message to Shell
> Command", with the name of the shell file in the first field. The action
> is set to "Does not return" with the value of "0" (zero).
>
> I then move that to a spam folder and "stop processing"
>
> I also have a second filter that checks "specific header" for
> X-Spam-Flag" contains "Yes". I move that also to a spam folder and stop
> processing.

Thanks for the reply Mark,

VERY interesting.  I need to look into this further.  I'm currently using 
KMail, but if Evolution has built-in support for spamassassin, I don't mind 
switching.

I assume there's a HOWTO somewhere, I'll look for one.

-- 
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
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