SuSE & locate (now spamassasin)

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Jay Nugent wrote:
>  However, I am still baffled by spamassasin.  Never used it, so I am a
> total noob at this point.  I *think* SuSE installed it when it
> installed Postfix.  Postfix is running and happily sending and receiving
> email.  But I haven't a clue if it is hooked in with Spamassasin and doing
> any spam filtering.  How does one tell???
>
>    o The spamassasin files are installed :)
>    o ps aux shows no spamassasin running :(
>    o /etc/init.d/rc5.d shows no startup script for spamassasin
>    o Browsing the Postfix config files I have yet to find any reference to
>      spamassasin (or how to hook in with any other spam filter tool)
>    o Browsing the Spamassasin configs leaves me just as clueless...

When I ran SA, I had to call it from my /etc/procmailrc  but you can hook it 
in several ways.  Depends on how you are processing the incoming mails and 
distributing them.

I found SA to be too much work or diddling with blacklists and whitelists....  
maybe it has improved in the last 3 years.

I now use dspam  which I find to be much better and much less work.