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Re: sending spam to /dev/null

2005-07-24 14:15:32
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:04 pm, Damian Menscher wrote:
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

Thanks Damian, I'll do it then.  However, just a question, you have two 
recipes, one that on X-Spam-Status: Yes autolearns then sends spam 
to /dev/null the other on X-Spam-Status: Yes sends spam to your junk folder, 
doesn't the first recipe cancel out the 2nd?  Or am I a bit confused here?

-- 
Chris
Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org
16:08:58 up 17:10, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.27, 0.27
Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
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