Using SpamAssassin with Procmail

[Patrick Shoaf <ps...@midmon.com>]

I am very new to both SpamAssassin & Procmail.  I have inserted the 
following into my .procmailrc file.  Spamassassin is processing the message 
and flagging a very high percentage of spam as spam.  How do I now tell 
procmail/spamassassin to deliver the message to /dev/null (trash) rather 
than my inbox.

.procmailrc file contents

:0hbf
| /usr/local/f-prot/tools/scan-mail.pl

:0hbf
| /usr/bin/spamassassin

:0
* ^Subject:.*Viagra
* Viagra
* debt relief
/dev/null

Thanks for all the help...


Patrick J. Shoaf, Systems Engineer
<ma...@midmon.com>pshoaf@midmon.com

Midmon Internet Services, LLC
100 Third Street
Charleroi, PA 15022
http://www.midmon.com
Phone: 724-483-2400 ext. 105
  or    888-638-6963
Fax:   724-489-4386

Re: Using SpamAssassin with Procmail

[Raquel Rice <ra...@thericehouse.net>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:50:15 -0500
Patrick Shoaf <ps...@midmon.com> wrote:

> I am very new to both SpamAssassin & Procmail.  I have inserted
> the following into my .procmailrc file.  Spamassassin is
> processing the message and flagging a very high percentage of spam
> as spam.  How do I now tell procmail/spamassassin to deliver the
> message to /dev/null (trash) rather than my inbox.
>
<snip> 
> 
> Thanks for all the help...
> 
> 
> Patrick J. Shoaf

Patrick,

On our mail server I run spamassassin from procmail:

     DROPPRIVS=yes

     :0fw
     * < 256000
     | /usr/bin/spamc

Then on my desktop, I "sort" using procmail:

     # SPAM TRAP
     :0:
     * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*
     ${SPAMFOLDER}

Prior to the above rules I have rules to catch spam which have 5-9,
10-14, 15-19, 20-24, and 30+ "*" (so I can more easily check the
scores.  With no false positives in the higher scored directories,
I'm ready to start dumping them to /dev/null on my desktop machine.

I see no reason the above rules couldn't be placed into one
procmail.rc for an individual machine ... if that's the way you're
setup.

-- 
Raquel
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