[Mailman-Users] Filtering spam with Spamassassin / Procmail and > Mailman...

Mike Noyes mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net
Sun May 26 21:54:37 CEST 2002


On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 09:57, David wrote:
> I'm a happy Mailman 2.0.11 user, and until now I have used SpamAssassin 2.20
> to filter out spam in my personal mailbox. I applied the SpamAssassin.py
> patch for Mailman, but I have a problem. I use demime to avoid HTML mail to
> reach my lists. My setup: Postfix takes care of the incoming mail and sends
> it to demime. Demime removes the unwanted MIME and HTML stuff and send the
> mail to Mailman. The SpamAssassin patch scans the demimed message and sends
> it to the list. 
> 
> I have two problems:
> 1. No messages are discarded or put on hold, even if it scores over 10 (The
> message is tagged as spam)
> 2. Demime removes a lot of stuff that SpamAssassin scores on. It's harder
> for SpamAssassin to do it's job.
> 
> Is it possible to solve this? I don't have any programming skills myself:-(

David,
This information from Marc Merlin may help.

Exim SpamAssassin at SMTP time
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html

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Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
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