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

David david at gof.se
Sun May 26 18:57:09 CEST 2002


> There is also a patch for mailman which lets mailman run SA and discard or
> hold messages flagged as spam, look in the patch manager on sf.net or in
> this list's archives
> 
> Marc

Dear gurus,

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:-(

 Blue Skies,
 /David







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