[ILUG] spamassassin

[John Allen]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:57, Darragh Bailey wrote:
> Quoting Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>:
> > > > Justin Mason writes
> > > >
> > > > - --mbox switch is required when working on mboxes.
> > >
> > > sorry that was a typo above, I forgot to add in that I was using
> > > that option as
> > > well, but its more to do with the fact that spamassassin current
> > > can't handle
> > > imap folders at the moment.
> >
> > You're mixing your terminology here.  When you're looking at
> > the raw file(s) that make up a mail "folder", IMAP doesn't
> > come into the picture.  You've box mbox folders, Maildir folders
> > and multiple others that I can't remember the names of right
> > now.
> >
> > You'll recognize Maildir folders by the cur/, new/ and tmp/
> > subdirs.
>
> What I have is a number of mail folders under ~/mail/, each mail folder is
> basically a file that contains all the mails and the problem that
> spamassassin has in reading in from these directly is with the following
> folder header
>
> >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Mar  3 10:38:52 2004
>
> Date: 03 Mar 2004 10:38:52 +0000
> From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at compsoc.nuigalway.ie>
> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> Message-ID: <1078310332 at compsoc.nuigalway.ie>
> X-IMAP: 1077182741 0000000428
> Status: RO
>
> This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
> a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
> If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
> with the data reset to initial values.
>

As far as I can remember procmail does this whenn appending directly to an 
mbox. It will appear before every single mail, not just the first one. You 
will need to filter it out.

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