Bug?/questions about spamassassin

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 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.

Are you still using '-d'? Without that spamd runs in the foreground 
rather than as a daemon. Are you setting the options in 
/etc/sysconfig/spamassassin?

[bevan at heimdall ~]> more /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
# Options to spamd
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -x -a -m5 -u mailnull -L"


> 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.
> 
> Thanks, as always, for any help!

You can change the subject tag (and whether or not to have one) in 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.

Generally, since it's not 100% accurate, people filter alleged spam into 
a separate mailbox (using procmail) for later review.

A procmailrc similar to the following might help:
# SpamAssassin check
:0 wf
* !^X-spam-status:
| /usr/bin/spamc
# immediately discard anything scoring over 10.
:0 w
* ^X-spam-status: YES, hits=[1-9][0-9]
/dev/null
# file other spam into spam folder
:0 w :spam/.lock
* ^X-spam-status: YES
spam