[PLUG] Spamassassin questions

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

I've read the man page a few times over, and a couple of how-tos for 
setting it up with kmail and evolution (w/o fetchmail/procmail), think 
I understand it, but still can't get it to work.

The kmail method runs each incoming message through "spamassassin" via 
a filter.  Spamassassin is supposed to flag messages determined to be 
spam.  Then a subsequent filter, checking for the flags, either 
deletes, bounces or quarantines it.

The evolution method runs each incoming message through "spamassassin 
-e"  which is supposed to cause spamassassin to return a non-zero value 
if the mail is spam.  The same filter then moves the message to a spam 
folder if it receives the non-zero value.

Neither method is working for me.

Kmail is indeed processing every message through spamassassin 
(evidenced by sharply increased retrieval times), but spamassassin does 
not appear to be setting any flags.

I notice that mail in /var/spool/mail/arthur does seem to be getting 
tagged as spam, but kmail stores its mail in ~/Mail.

Why is mail getting into both of these locations?  Can I direct 
spamassassin to direct its flagged rewrites to ~/Mail?  The man page 
includes a parameter that redirects the reads to STDOUT wherever that 
is.

I know that others on this list are using spamassassin successfully.  
The mail in /var/spool/mail/arthur seems to be getting tagged 
accurately.  Please help.
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Art Alexion
Arthur S. Alexion LLC
mailto:arthur@alexion.com
http://www.alexion.com
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