Re: newbie spam filtering with gnus

[Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net>]

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015, Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:

[...]

> Spamc -V does give me a version number, so that seems to be working. I
> added the code you recommended, so the full splitting/spam-oriented
> lines of my .gnus are:
>
> | (setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
> |       nnmail-split-fancy '(| (: kevin-spamassassin)
> |                              "mail.misc"))
> |  
> | (defun kevin-spamassassin ()
> |   (save-excursion
> |     (save-restriction
> |       (widen)
> |       (if (eq 1 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
> |                                      "spamc" nil nil nil "-c"))
> |           "spam"))))
>
> I can receive mail still---all seems to be working, but no spams have
> yet been filtered. Are there steps I need to take directly with
> Spamassassin to get it working?

spamc requires that spamd is running (see 'man spamassassin'). In a
terminal, try

    echo something | spamc -r

If SpamAssassin works, it should tell you that the message ('something')
is spam because it is missing headers etc.


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Enrico Schumann
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