On using spamassassin

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sun Dec 31 06:36:09 UTC 2006


Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I'm using spamassassin for spam filtering with this rule of
> procmail on FC5:
> 
> :0 fh w
> *> 256000
> * ^Subject:\/.*
> | formail -I "Subject: {* -BIG- *} $MATCH"
> 
> # send mail through spamassassin
> :0fw
> | /usr/bin/spamc
> 
> Since I get about 200 mails a day I'm using the demons version not
> to load spamassassin each time. But if I learn sa with sa-learn as a
> normal user will that knowledge be used by the demon or it uses it's
> global knowledge base? And to use it I should rather use:
> 
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
> 
> in my procmail rule? But then load spamassassin each time?

You should be fine calling spamc.  This is what I do on my mail
system (not that that makes it correct :).

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