Topic: Spamassasin rpm

[John]

Hi

I will figure this out!

I don't think I have server setup right (or at least I don't have the concept in my head).

Don't I have to set fetchmail to poll my ISP pop mail box log in and get my mails (Basically the same as what you do when you set up a email program - set the pop server, set the smtp server give it a user login and password).

Having done this I assume they get sorted by procmail and put into folders on the server (A bit like setting rules and folders in a email program).

Now the bit where I am confused is where the spamassassin comes in. I assume that part of procmails job is to also sort out spam from the other stuff. I asssume the promail rules cause the system to grab mail that is judged to be spam and either hold onto it on the server ina folder, forward it marked as spam or delete it. The blacklists then must be like super rules that automaticaly hold on to mail that the blacklist rules catch? I know whitelists enable mail identified by the whitelist to pass through.

Now the next question I have is how do I then set up my email programs (Sylpheed) on client machines to receive mail for that particular user from the server.

I hope this makes sense and that maybe somebody could "adjust" my understanding and explain what I do at each point.

I asssume my first thing to do is to set up fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP pop account. I assume this is done in server manager in email retreival?

John






Is this right?

[Ray Mitchell]

All this assumes that your email system is already delivering mail correctly before you start using spamassassin. If not then get it working before playing with spamassassin and procmail.


> Do I still have to have it set in geek mode?

You can use Normal (your rules are controlled by user-manager procmail web interface) or you can use Geek mode where all rules are controlled by manual command line intervention and not by the web panel.

> Do I have to set all the spam rules myself.

The spam rules are part of spamassassin, just set the spamassassin config as you want it, plus the white & black lists of course.

> DO I have to set it now to get mail off my server rather than
> log into my pop accounts?

Its your choice, if you want POP or IMAP, I don't think using spamassassin changes how you can collect your mail, although if you use IMAP it can direct the spam message to a "junkmail" folder (if enabled), whereas if you use POP the spam message is just delivered as usual to your user account. Then you can use a procmail rule to filter the spam messages if you want, this is where it would be good to enable spamassassin to add the word SPAM to each spam message so you can filter on it if desired.

Hope this helps
Ray

[John]

Hi

BIG thanks to all for the help.

I got it all set up and working.

John

[marc sultan]

Hi,
Well i've followed all the thread and i must say i'm like John
i have my mail serveur working fine but i use SSL encryption and IMAP (use the great securemail package) i installed all the package needed, looked for the latest release of spamassassin and i can't get junkmail folder in spite i setup my account in geek mode
any ideas ?

Marc SULTAN

[Dave]

Well I too have followed this through and configured everyone to use IMAP and logged in idividually as each user (only eight of us) and selected process mail and set the email delivery to use procmail.

I have sent, via hotmail account, spam as mentioned earlier but it still gets through.

So I'm at a loss what to do next.

Thanks to everyone for input I'm sure if I keep trying I'll get there :~)

Dave

[Dave]

Well, I know its working, I added my hotmail address to the black list, sent an email and BAM it got sent to the junkmail folder.

There's hope yet :~)

Dave

[marc sultan]

Hi all,

Well dave, i think i get trouble to get spamassassin working well because i use port 465 for secure SMTP/IMAP and i guess i need to fix it manually but i hadn't time to check for that
but it seem many here got it working so we should find a way i'll let u know if i can figure out what was the problem...