On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:27:08 -0500 (EST) Craig White wrote: > slugging through an awkward issue with spamassassin on my home server. > > I am using fetchmail to get mail from my ISP - who in essence, has > already accepted delivery. > > I have an email in my box which fetchmail keeps retrieving and > spamassassin is rejecting it - which is kind of an endless loop. > > Specifically, I am running spamassassin & spamass-milter (milter via > sendmail). > > I currently have the following options to spamd set... > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin > SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m5 -H -L -x -u smmsp" > > hoping that the '-L' option would serve the purpose...it hasn't > > Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a > way of snowballing. > > TIA You might want to check if you are getting socket errors in your fetchmail. It will cause messages to repeat in your mail. I experienced this from my fetchmail. To fix it I changed fetchmailrc to include logging and expunge 1 to erase mail from my server. here is a copy of my .fetchmailrc file. # Configuration created Sun Jul 11 10:36:42 2004 by fetchmailconf set postmaster "rmiles" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" set daemon 90 set no syslog set logfile /home/rmiles/fetchmail.log poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3 user 'r.godzilla' there with password 'xxxx' is 'rmiles' here expunge 1 -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097