On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 02:12, Andre Meyer wrote: > Dear Fedora specialists > > I have tried to get rid of the mass of spam mails that I receive using > Spamassassin on my FC1 machine. I used this machine as a single user desktop > computer. After going through various manuals* on how to configure > Spamassassin I still cannot get it invoked and no X-Spam headers are > inserted when I look at the mails in Evolution. spamd is running and I can > use spamc manually on test mails. I have switched my MTA to Postfix, because > most manuals suggest using this, added the necessary stuff to the > configuration files and created the spam user (why is this necessary?). What > is missing? > > Can anybody explain the process of receiving mail from a POP3 account until > it ends up in Evolution? How can I test the individual processes and check > what goes wrong? Do I need Postfix and/or procmail? I use Spamassassin, Procmail, Fetchmail and Postfix for mail on my workstation. Fetchmail is used to retrieve mail from my ISP's POP3 mail server. Postfix is used to send mail to my ISP's smtp server. However, you could use Evolution to send mail. However, I wanted to have local mail delivery (root mail mainly) so I use postfix for both local as well as sending to my ISP. Procmail is used to send mail to Spamassassin. Once spamassassin is complete, the mail is dumped into /var/spool/mail/userid for pickup by Evolution. I use Evolution to sort mail into folders rather than using procmail. I would suggest googling for help configuring your system. Hope this helps some. -- Clifford Snow
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