stupid spamassassin tricks

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:50 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:27:08 -0500 (EST)
>  Craig White wrote:
> > Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a
> > way of snowballing.
> > 
> > TIA
> 
> You might want to check if you are getting socket errors in your fetchmail. It
> will cause messages to repeat in your mail. I experienced this from my
> fetchmail. To fix it I changed fetchmailrc to include logging and expunge 1 to
> erase mail from my server. here is a copy of my .fetchmailrc file.
> 
> # Configuration created Sun Jul 11 10:36:42 2004 by fetchmailconf
> set postmaster "rmiles"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 90
> 
> set no syslog
> 
> set logfile /home/rmiles/fetchmail.log
> poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3
>        user 'r.godzilla' there with password 'xxxx' is 'rmiles' here
> 
> expunge 1
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hmmm...
expunge 1 is interesting - I finally resorted to doing 25 at a time. 

This is my .fetchmailrc

defaults
set daemon 180
set postmaster craig
set nospambounce
set nobouncemail
set logfile /home/craig/fetchmail.log
poll MY_ISPs_MAIL_SERVER
        proto imap
        localdomains azapple.com
        user "MY_ACCOUNT"
        pass "MY_PASSWORD"
        batchlimit 25

it's been working for a few years. The problem was of course spamass-
milter which has now been solved.

During my switchover from uw-imap to cyrus-imapd (which included
migrating all my mail from mbox and 're-creating' my procmail rules into
sieve filters) I was 'dark' for about 1 day and there were 1377 emails
waiting for me when I felt comfortable enough to resume 'fetching' - I
wonder whether 'expunge 1' or 'batchlimit 25' is more efficient.

Craig