Re: SPAM solutions

Jason L Tibbitts III <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.majordomo2.devel
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>>>>> "N" == Nelson2  <Nelson2> writes:

N> Re-visiting this topic: I noticed that spamassasin uses procmail.

I don't believe that's the case.  You can set up procmail to call
spamassassin, but that's suboptimal.  If you control the mail system
you should have it running at SMTP time.

N> I did some testing with procmail a while back.  The filters didn't
N> seem to work when the message was going to an alias vs. an actual
N> account on the system.

Generally procmail is called on delivery to an account, either via a
.forward file or on sendmail setups with some config switch.  It's not
going to be called when passing mail to a program via an alias.

 - J<
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