Topic: SPAM ASSASSIN Question

[Chris Woods]

I installed Spam Assassin on SME 5.6 like you guy suggested.  The only question I have is how do the individual users access their personal SPAM list?


tks.

Chris

[Bill Talcott]

I have SA installed on our 5.5U3. I run spamd at startup, and procmail calls spamc to check each email. I made a custom template so that the SA check is automatically added when a user switches on procmail (via User Panel).

/etc/e-smith/templates-user-custom/.procmailrc/39spamassassin:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
# --------------------------
# SpamAssassin spam filter
# --------------------------

:0 Wc  
| spamc -c
:0 We
$MAILDIR/Spam/  

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

This dumps the bad emails into a "Spam" subfolder, which is a regular IMAP folder that users can subscribe to.

SA can be setup in so many ways it's hard to answer your question. I'm not sure how the contrib is setup by default. The file listing from "rpm -ql" might give you clues about where to look for stuff. You can have SA just add headers stating that it was detected as spam, or you can have it modify the subject line, or you can use the check results to process it via procmail. If you just want more info on how SA works in general, check its site at http://www.spamassassin.org and look at the docs.

[Alejandro Lengua]

This means that SA should be enabled on each user, right?

[tpearsall]

On 5.6 there is an option "You can give each user the ability to override certain global configuration parameters, including personal white list/black list entries, via the user-manager".  When I turned this on I thought an option would appear on the user-manager for SA settings, but it didn't.

I just assumed that it wasn't implemented yet, but it's quite possible there is something else that needs to be done.  

- Todd