On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Chris wrote:
This is probably a very dumb question, but here goes. I'll be going on
vacation in about a month and instead of coming back to a spam folder full of
a couple of thousand messages I'd just like to not even have them tossed into
the spam folder. I currently have this in my .procmailrc file:
:0
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
$JUNKMAIL
Would just changing the $JUNKMAIL to /dev/null drop all spam into a black
hole? I checked the examples man page and the others, did find one example
where /dev/null was used in a linuxgazette article, but want to make sure
this is the correct way.
Yes, it is. I do the following (after scanning with SpamAssassin):
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
* autolearn=spam
/dev/null
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
junk
This blackholes the definite spam (stuff that was so obviously spam that
SA auto-trained the bayes database on it) and saves the probable spam to
my junk folder. About 2/3 of my spam ends up being sent directly to
/dev/null this way. (I did this originally because reviewing the
junk-mail folder had become too much of a chore. Since you have exactly
the same concern, I expect you'll like this solution.)
Damian Menscher
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