Re: Now: SpamAssassin and Evolution Was: [SLUG] Spam Lotto

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 10:59:35 EST


For newer Debian users, you have to do apt-get install gnome to install
Gnome 2.8, which includes Evolution 2.0. There is no stand-alone
installer for Evolution 2.0 (yet).

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On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Logan Tygart wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:34 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Richard Smoot wrote:
>>
>>> Did everybody on the list win 1,500,000 Euros?
> <snip>
>> I really need to set up a Bayesian filter... any recommendations?
>
> I have been running spamassassin with Evolution 2.0, for about two
> months now. It works flawlessly and allows you to dump procmail. I
> use
> fetchmail, to retrieve my mail from a multitude of servers, and allow
> Evolution to parse my mail.
>
> For Debian folks, to engage SpamAssassin with Evolution 2.0, apt-get
> install both (for anything but Debian Woody), then edit your
> spamassassin file. (For .rpm users, install Evolution 2.0 and
> SpamAssassin, then find the files I am talking about, in what ever
> manner you follow the insanity of .rpm distros.) Debian users
> edit /etc/defaults/spamassassin, and ensure these lines are in the
> file:
>
> ENABLED=1
> OPTIONS="-L --create-prefs --max-children 1 --helper-home-dir"
> PIDFILE="/var/run/spamd.pid"
>
> The -L is for local use and set the max children number to how many
> people actually sit and read mail at the box. The default is 5; if you
> are the only one with an account at the computer, set it to 1.
>
> For Debian folks, restart SpamAssassin (spamd) with:
>
> /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
>
> In my inbox, I had a few 419 and lottery spam messages. I clicked on
> each of the messages and then click on the junk icon.
>
> It is as simple as that. Evolution moves the messages to the junk
> folder and SpamAssassin learns from the junk mail folder.
>
> Now, when Evolution parses my mail, it runs each message through
> spamassassin. Using the aforementioned method, I have had zero false
> positives.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> The Logan
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