How do eliminate SPAM from my mailbox?

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Fri Jul 23 20:49:02 UTC 2004


 > Richard E Miles wrote:

 >> I have set up procmail to call spamd (spamassassin) and to use Vipuls
 >> razor-check. The mail is correctly being filtered for SPAM. I see SPAM
 >> on the messages in my mail, but how
 >> do I get it to drop these SPAM mails from my mailbox?
 >>
 > You have to use another procmail rule to check the headers of the
 > messages. In my case , here's what I use:
 > ### spamassassin rule
 > :0 fw spamassassin.lock
 > | /usr/bin/spamc

 > ## SPAM
 > :0:
 > *^X-Spam-Status: Yes.*
 > $MAILDIR/spam


 > This moves all the messages that spamassassin marks as spam to my spam
 > folder.. Dont know if vipuls adds any headers , but probably it does..
 > You only have to see which header it adds and create a rule for it in
 > procmail... Or , if it doesnt add any header , you can use its exit code
 > too (man procmail and man procmailex have good details about it).


Thanks Pedro. I will put these rules in procmail.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097





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