Re: stupid spamassassin tricks

[Richard E Miles]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:27:08 -0500 (EST)
 Craig White wrote:

>  slugging through an awkward issue with spamassassin on my home
> server.
>  
>  I am using fetchmail to get mail from my ISP - who in essence, has
>  already accepted delivery.
>  
>  I have an email in my box which fetchmail keeps retrieving and
>  spamassassin is rejecting it - which is kind of an endless loop.
>  
>  Specifically, I am running spamassassin & spamass-milter (milter via
>  sendmail).
>  
>  I currently have the following options to spamd set...
>  
>  # cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
>  SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -H -L -x -u smmsp"
>  
>  hoping that the '-L' option would serve the purpose...it hasn't
>  
>  Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a
>  way of snowballing.
>  
>  TIA 
You might want to check if you are getting socket errors in your fetchmail. It
will cause messages to repeat in your mail. I experienced this from my
fetchmail. To fix it I changed fetchmailrc to include logging and expunge 1 to
erase mail from my server. here is a copy of my .fetchmailrc file.

# Configuration created Sun Jul 11 10:36:42 2004 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "rmiles"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 90

set no syslog

set logfile /home/rmiles/fetchmail.log
poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3
       user 'r.godzilla' there with password 'xxxx' is 'rmiles'
here

expunge 1


-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097