On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Paul Rushing wrote: > > When I run the newest version of spamassassin (2.6.3-0.2) from the init.d > > directory as user root, it hangs when I use "-u mailnull" as the options. > > Or any other user (mail, etc), for that matter. Typing ./spamassassin > > start with just the option above shows: > > > > starting spamd: > > > > And then it hangs. > > > > Using the defaults with the software (-d -c -a -m5 -H) works fine, except > > my incoming spam is labeled as [SPAM] in Pine. Is there any way, from the > > spamassassin option command line above, to add an option to automatically > > delete those incoming emails when they are detected to be spam? I'm sure > > there is, but in my half-awake state and 2 hours on the spamassassin web > > site, I'm not clear how to do it. > > no, spamassassin is not in the business of deleting email. Spamassassin > only scores the email and optionally marks it with [spam] tags. You need > to use a filter that you can setup to act on the spamassassin markup. It > is not clear from your post where you are calling spamassassin. Are you > invoking spamassassin in your .procmailrc file? That's the method that's > described in the spamassassin documentation. If procmail is involved > then you can create a rule in procmailrc, something like this: > > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > caughtspam > > That will file spam emails into a folder named caughtspam. I find it > better to save the spam emails, then you can train the bayesian filters > sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/mail/caughtspam > > If you are just convinced that you have to delete the messages and you are > not worried about false positive scores from spamassassin then you can > replace 'caughtspam' with '/dev/null/' above. Got it...now, it works. Thank you! ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: gilbert@xxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
