On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> I have it all installed, mostly with defaults, but spam still seems to
> be getting through. I've received 6 spam messages since last night. How
> can I tell if its working at all? /var/log/maillog doesn't seem to show
> me much except sendmail delivering (forwarding in my case) the messages.
> Are there some logs somewhere for MailScanner, SpamAssassin (and f-prot
> for that matter)?
Have a look at the email headers. Do you see anything like the
following? If so, spamassassin is doing its job and you're most of the
way there.
Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: Start an eBay Business
X-Is-Spam: Yes, SpamAssassin (score=23.4, required 5, SUBJ_HAS_SPACES,
INVALID_DATE_TZ_ABSURD, NO_REAL_NAME, HOME_EMPLOYMENT, WORK_AT_HOME,
EXCUSE_3, EXCUSE_14, EXCUSE_10, EXCUSE_15, REMOVE_PAGE, BIG_FONT,
CTYPE_JUST_HTML, SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID)
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=23.4 required=7.0
tests=SUBJ_HAS_SPACES,INVALID_DATE_TZ_ABSURD,NO_REAL_NAME,HOME_EMPLOYMENT,WORK_AT_HOME,EXCUSE_3,EXCUSE_14,EXCUSE_10,EXCUSE_15,REMOVE_PAGE,BIG_FONT,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID
version=2.20
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Level: ***********************
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.20 (devel $Id: SpamAssassin.pm,v 1.77
2002/04/06 19:28:30 hughescr Exp $)
X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> In another post Steve Cowles made mention of Procmail. It looks like
> Procmail was installed by default when I installed RH8. Do I need to
> disable or configure anything in there?
SpamAssassin only identifies the mail as spam; it's up to you to filter
the mail and shunt the spam to another file. There's a pretty good
procmail tutorial at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
which is well worth reading, as are the procmail, procmailrc, and
procmailex manpages. A basic procmail recipe for spamassassin looks
like this:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
:0fw
| spamassassin -P
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
spam
Basically if there's a X-Spam-Status: Yes header the mail gets sent to
the ~/Mail/spam file. Spamassassin has never once tagged legitimate
mail as spam, but I go through my spamfile once a month or so just to
make sure.
I have to say, between spamassassin and friends, mozilla's privacy
features, and the filterproxy (filterproxy.sf.net) web filter, the net
seems like the good old days before Canter & Siegal and all of their
successors. No spam, no ads, pop-up or otherwise, no theft of my time
or privacy. Very nice. I am always amazed when I use someone else's
computer and see how they're continually assaulted by all the crap out
there. I honestly don't know how anyone can stand it.
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