Re: spamc invocation: move from procmail to Gnus

[Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net>]

deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:

> Hi everybody,

Hello.
[...]
> I.e. it's fetched by fetchmail and other means and put in maildir by
> procmail, preprocessed by spamassassin. I'm moving my home directory to
> NFS and the host machine (k6-266/128m/ata) won't be able to easily
> handle spamassassin. So I want to run spamc on client machines.

I don't quite follow what you try to archive. I'm with you all the way
up to "run spamc on client machines." Will the client machines run
fetchmail and procmail?

> I've also looked into spam.el, but found the way, it offers, too
> complicated, but uneffective. I simply want to have spamassassin scores
> in message header before it gets delivered to a folder.

It might be so that you are looking at Gnus from the procmail/SA
angle but need to look at procmail/SA from the Gnus angle.

What does you do with the spam that SA detects? I.e. what does you do
with mails that has the "X-SPAM: yes" header? Do you score on it or do
you split such emails to a specific group? Does you use SA's training
capabilities or just the static rule check?

I'm not convinced spam.el can be used to use spamassassin as is but
need to be extended. This should be possible and definitely something
some here might help out with - since it is a feature that is needed. 

I had one long look at spam filtering in Gnus before selecting which
backend I should use and I found like you did that spamassassin is not
perfectly integrated into Gnus (yet) so I decided I should use
bogofilter instead and I'm quite happy with that result.

It is nontrivial to use spamassassin from inside Gnus, one way of
solving this is to decide if you have to use spamassassin or can
change to some other filter - or wait until SA is integrated.

Can you describe the thoughts behind your decisions why you arrived at
this solution?

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