Bug?/questions about spamassassin

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Paul Rushing wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> no, spamassassin is not in the business of deleting email.  Spamassassin
> only scores the email and optionally marks it with [spam] tags.  You need
> to use a filter that you can setup to act on the spamassassin markup.  It
> is not clear from your post where you are calling spamassassin.  Are you
> invoking spamassassin in your .procmailrc file?   That's the method that's
> described in the spamassassin documentation.   If procmail is involved
> then you can create a rule in procmailrc, something like this:
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
> 
> That will file spam emails into a folder named caughtspam.   I find it
> better to save the spam emails, then you can train the bayesian filters
> sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/mail/caughtspam
> 
> If you are just convinced that you have to delete the messages and you are
> not worried about false positive scores from spamassassin then you can
> replace 'caughtspam' with '/dev/null/' above.

Got it...now, it works. Thank you!

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