Re: [MLUG] calendar and e-mail programs for Linux

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks, Melissa.  That helps a lot.  It looks like SpamAssassin is a
really nice product.  Does anyone on the list prefer a different product
that does the same kind of thing?

Mike


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Melissa Plunkett wrote:

> > Does anyone have experience working simultaneously with both procmail
> > and with a spam filter?  They ought to work together somehow.  For
> > example, if the mail goes first to the spam filter, it could add a
> > line in the header saying something like "Probable Spam: Yes" or
> > "Probable Spam: No" and procmail could take it from there.
>
> Yup, SpamAssassin (http://useast.spamassassin.org/index.html)  The flag
> you mention in spamassassin is X-Spam-Flag: YES
> The Yes is determined by a hit count like so...
>
> 	X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=2.0 required=1.5
> 	tests=MIME_SUSPECT_NAME,WEIRD_PORT
>          autolearn=no version=2.60
> OR
> 	X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=1.5 tests=CLICK_BELOW,
>          HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE,HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED,HTML_MESSAGE,
>          MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autolearn=no version=2.60
>
> You can use various methods to utilize it in a system wide setting or
> just let users use procmail rules to set their own up (mine has a very
> high threshold, 1.5 hits, so I send all mail to a directory to glance at
> later, have gotten a few false positives - not too many).
>
> -Melissa
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