Spamfilter software like Spampal for Linux

[Romain Petges]

Hi all,

after switching to Linux I'm seeking for an Anti-SPAM tool similar to
Spampal.

Best regards, Romain

 

[Gordon Darling]

Hi all,

after switching to Linux I'm seeking for an Anti-SPAM tool similar to
Spampal.

SpamAssassin
http://www.spamassassin.org/

Regards
Gordon

 

[Romain Petges]

SpamAssassin

http://www.spamassassin.org/

Thanks Gordon, will give it a try !

Regards, Romain

 

[Gordon Darling]

Thanks Gordon, will give it a try !

Regards, Romain

You didn't quote which Linux distro you are using or which mail client.

Almost every distro on the planet has a spamassassin RPM/DEB/TGZ as part
of the distro so you should be able to find it on your install CDs.

How you set it up depends on whether you are using your own mailserver or
you are using something like Kmail to fetch pop3 mail. I use evolution
and I just create a rule that sends all mail through a shell script
spamtrap.sh and if the script does NOT return zero it's spam and move it
to the junk folder. The spamtrap.sh script contains only one line

spamc -c

This uses the daemonized version of spamassassin called spamd, it's called
by spamc which is a "lightweight" version of the full spamassassin program
and runs faster than the full program.

If you have problems/questions post again.

Regards
Gordon

 

[Romain Petges]

Gordon,

I use Fedora Core 2 T3 and Evolution for my eMail client and I don't use
my own mail server. Evolution is set up to fetch mail from my ISP's POP3
server.

I really appreciate your help and feedback !

I'm really new to Linux and just finished the migration from WinXP to
Linux ... and it works great.

P.S. For all the fans of Attribute Changer: I will still developing
Attribute Changer, but in a virtual Windows machine running on Linux

Regards, Romain

 

[Gordon Darling]

Gordon,

I use Fedora Core 2 T3 and Evolution for my eMail client and I don't use
my own mail server. Evolution is set up to fetch mail from my ISP's POP3
server.

Easier and easier! You need the spamasassin RPM for fedora. Mandrake has
now split the spamassassin RPMs but at a minimum you'll need Perl,
Perl:Mail:SpamAssassin and the spamassassin RPMs - the main one and
possibly a seperate spamassassin-spamc and spamassassin-spamd RPM if
fedora has packaged it the same as Mandrake. You do NOT need
spamassassin-tools.

Install the RPMs and make sure spamd is running as a daemon

"ps -A | grep spamd"

Now go into evolution and go into Tools>Filters

Set up incoming "whitelist" filters for regular mail (e.g. newsletters,
etc) with the last rule as "stop processing". You do this so spamassassin
doesn't waste time checking ALL your mail.

Create a folder in evolution called Junk.

Create a new filter rule as the very last rule (after your "whitelist" has
been processed) as follows

pipe message to shell command > spamtrap.sh > does not return 0 then
move to folder > Junk

Create a file spamtrap.sh (best place to put it is you home bin directory
or /usr/local/bin) with the single line

spamc -c

You'll find more info if you search on the www.ximian.com site

I really appreciate your help and feedback !

Glad to help. Shout if you need more info.

I'm really new to Linux and just finished the migration from WinXP to
Linux ... and it works great.

P.S. For all the fans of Attribute Changer: I will still developing
Attribute Changer, but in a virtual Windows machine running on Linux

I like it!

All the best.
Gordon

 

[Romain Petges]

Gordon,

Puuuh, thanks for the info. I think I still have something to learn about
administering Linux ...

For the moment, I'll use the GUI and sometimes the shell to do basic
system administration (Mounts, filesystem admin etc.).

What Linux distro do you use ? Maybe we could exchange some private mails ?

Best regards, Romain

 

[Gordon Darling]

Gordon,

Puuuh, thanks for the info. I think I still have something to learn about
administering Linux ...

Been a bit tied up over the last few days so I've only just got around to
catching up on acf.

For the moment, I'll use the GUI and sometimes the shell to do basic
system administration (Mounts, filesystem admin etc.).

What Linux distro do you use ? Maybe we could exchange some private mails ?

I've used most of them at one time or another from RedHat 5.1 onwards.

Currently Mdk10.0 Official, Shorewall and FreeBSD machines. One running
Solaris 8 and one refugee (my daughter's machine) running Win98.

Post a human readable email address and I'll email you.

How are you getting on with spamassassin?

Regards
Gordon

 

[Romain Petges]

Post a human readable email address and I'll email you.

How are you getting on with spamassassin?

I didn't find any free time to try configuring spamassassin :-( ... I hope
to find some time this WE.

If you want to contact me, you can use romain@ add my domain name (see
signature)

Regards, Romain