Ok, I think I've got it working like this: Getmail > Spamassassin > Dovecot(Imap)
But I need to wait for some spam to come in so I can start training Spamassassin. It's odd, I've never wanted spam before...
I think that Spamassassin just labels spam, so once I'm happy that I've got that working, I'll pull in procmail to move it to the junkmail folder.
Matt
-----Original Message----- From: sagr [mailto:alug1@suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk] Sent: 28 July 2007 07:13 To: mephi Cc: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Email server and spam filtering
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:16 +0100, mephi wrote:
What I want is a server side spam filter in there, has anyone done
anything
like this?
Hi Matt,
As you have probably gathered; I don't have much of a clue about Linux but if it is any help the ancient mail server I am trying to update used the old fashioned:
fetchmail -> procmail -> spamassassin -> imap
chain to retrieve emails from various ISP POP mailboxes, filter them for spam, and make them available to endusers via imap.
You can read about procmail here: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html
and spamassasin here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/
The two critical config files, in my case, are the ".procmailrc" and ".spamassassin/user_prefs" files in each users home directory.
You can take a peek at my own ".procmailrc" file by looking here: http://www.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/alug/procmailrc.txt
and you can take a peek at my own ".spamassassin/user_prefs" file by looking here: http://www.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/alug/user_prefs.txt
Bearing in mind I was told me off by various ALUGers for using Debian 3.0 on our samba server I won't mention that our mailserver is running a older version than that... so I expect there are much more modern alternatives to procmail + spamassassin these days... but this very simple combination works ok for us.
Have fun!
Sagr.