spamassassin

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Doug Reynolds" <mav at wastegate.net> writes:

> I've been trying to setup spamassassin on my freebsd box with postfix. 
> I was reading the other thread about spamassassin.  What i couldn't
> figure out, was how it got the mail from the mail system.  I looked at
> spamd but it didn't look like the program.  I googled and still
> couldn't find a good tutorial.  If someone knows of a good tutorial and
> could give me a quick explaination, i'd be greatful.  Oh, I am running
> 5.1-RELEASE.  thanx

My preferred method is by filtering through procmail.  It's a simple
procmail recipe:
    # pass through spamassassin
    :0fw: spamassassin.lock
    | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin

(where the "w" flag tells it to continue procmail processing after
running the message through spamassassin)

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