[NBLUG/talk] Server-side spam filtering?

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:59:15PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
} I've set up my computer to download e-mail from my SBC account to a maildir 
} folder (using getmail--a program that's similar to fetchmail but supports 
} maildir).  I can then access my e-mail using IMAP (running Dovecot), either 
} on the local system or on my laptop.  It seems to work fine except for spam 
} filtering--the mail applications on both computers offer spam-filtering, but 
} I don't think I'll get consistent results unless I can do spam-filtering on 
} the server side.
}  
} Thus far, I've been able to configure getmail to pipe incoming mail through 
} SpamAssassin, so that incoming messages get the appropriate "Spam" headers 
} (and in the case of actual spam, the summary).  What I haven't figured out is 
} how to make it deliver spam to my "junk" folder instead of my inbox (right 
} now I've set up KMail to run the "Spam handling" filter on the inbox but not 
} the SpamAssassin check--at least for now it's keeping my inbox clean!).


Filtering to a spambox after spamassassin/dspam/crm114 is
usually done via procmail:

:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*
$MAILDIR/newspam

Or something like that (this is mbox format, not mailbox format).


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  Frank Ball  frankb at frankb.us