Re: a couple filtering questions

At 10:58 2012-07-04, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>What are the best parameters to use with formail to force any piece of
>email to get enough proper headers on it so spamassassin catches the email
>when it goes into the probably-spam folder?

Come again?  Shouldn't you be piping the _entire_ message to SA?

>I want to pass all incoming email through formail with these parameters first.

You're trying to accomplish what by doing so?  Removing things that 
SA may be using to identify the message as spam?

>Then if it's webmail that's just arrived I'd like to detect that and 
>run it through lynx so lynx strips out the html and leaves it in a 
>form alpine can read correctly.

Please define "webmail".  Or do you just mean anything where there's 
a single content-type: text/html ?  What of multipart/alternative 
which have included graphics?  File attachments?

>The system I use put a sample .procmailrc spamassassin file in
>my directory and I'm wondering when if at all any of that should be
>enabled

Not having a clue to what "system" you use or what your sample file 
contains, it's hard to say.

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