On Friday 25 June 2004 18:04, Dennis Dryden wrote:
I'm getting about 98% spam at the moment and i was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to setup something some spam filtering software(like spam assassin). Will it involve setting up sendmail or anything scary like that?
Not an evolution user myself but here is how I do it in kmail
I have spamassassin installed. Then I have two rules for incoming mail in kmail.
First If size is less than or equal to 250000 pipe through spamc
Then If X-Spam-Flag contains YES then move to folder spam and mark as read
If evolution cannot manage the X-Spam-Flag then then you can set up spamassassin to put ****SPAM***** in the subject line and filter for that instead.
Folder spam is set up to purge messages older than 2 weeks, this gives me a chance to check it once and a while for any false positives (very rare)
The size limit is important as spamc can barf on large messages.
You will also have to have a bit of a read up on how to use sa-learn to fine tune spamassassin. Essentially you move the spam messages not automatically detected as such to the spam folder manually then tell sa-learn to look at that folder. Personally this bit is done on my machine by cron, so all I have to do is remember to move any undetected spam I see rather than deleting it.
Of course I am still wasting bandwidth downloading the junk, but at least I haven't got to sieve through it everytime I want to check my mail.