Spam Assassin

[micahatc]

I have been using Spam Assassin for the last few months, and it does an excellent job of detecting spam.

My question is....

Is there a way to have Spam Assassin automatically delete messages that it sees as spam?

I don't mind losing a message here or there. I have rules set up in Outlook to automatically delete Spams, but I don't even want those messages to be downloaded in the first place!

(I'm thinking it may be a user_prefs edit.)

[j321]

I haven't tried this, but I don't think it's possible.

If you go to your domain's CPanel, and click on file manager, you can find Spam Assassin's user_prefs file in the .SpamAssassin directory.

Now if you take a look at
http://useast.spamassassin.org/doc/M...ssin_Conf.html
you 'll see the various configuration settings that you can add to user_prefs.

Unfortunately, as far as I can see, there's no option to automatically delete Spam there.

I guess you could try setting the CPanel mail filters to automatically block mail marked as spam by Spam Assassin, but I suspect the filter gets the mail before SA, so this probably won't work.

Well... at least you can filter or delete them in your e-mail client...

[mxrider]

Yes, you can now have the mail deleted. The e-mail filter screen has option to disguard and e-mail that matches the spam header. I have it on my accounts, and it worsk great!

[micahatc]

I tried the spam filter, and I haven't gotten a spam since!! I think it's working!!!

Thanks!!

[harveyc]

Would you please clarify the filter that you used? I haven't used any filters before, but am guessing I could use a filter that looks for an e-mail with the text "Spam detection software" and discard those e-mails. Since all of the e-mails Spam Assassin has been identifying as spam contain that text, that would do the job, right?