[hosers-announce] how not to ENLARGE YOUR PENIS and REFINANCE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ahem.

All incoming mail is now being filtered by SpamAssassin. You can see what 
it's doing if you look for various X-spam-* headers. Each incoming mail is 
tested against a host of heuristics, and given a score based on the 
results. E.g.,

HAVING AN ENTIRE LINE OF YELLING SHOULD GET THIS MESSAGE A FEW POINTS

which you'll be able to see in on of the X-spam-* headers. By default, any 
message that scores 5.0 or higher is given the following header:

X-spam-flag: YES

It's easy to use procmail and the X-spam-flag header to sort the spam from 
real mail. Assuming that you use MH locally and you want your spam to be 
filed into an MH folder named 'spam', this can be accomplished by creating 
a ~/.procmailrc with the following contents:

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
| /usr/lib/nmh/rcvstore +spam

If you already have one, then chances are you already know how to integrate 
this recipe into your existing .procmailrc. If you use fetchmail to read 
you mail somewhere else, (e.g., Tom?), just make a .procmailrc there with 
the same contents. If you use some other mail reader (does anyone here 
*not* use MH?), or you want some other behavior, we'll figure something out.

Nearly everything is configurable; if you want to adjust some of the tests, 
or whatever, you can do that in your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. The 
system-wide config file is /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, the system-wide 
defaults are listed in the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf, and the 
tests are defined in the files in /usr/share/spamassassin/.

Hopefully, this is enough information for everyone to get started. If you 
have any questions about how this works, or what you should do, please ask.

-- 
J.


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