Install and configure SpamAssassin under Debian Linux

David Hausheer

To install SpamAssassin under Debian, do:

apt-get install spamassassin procmail

To enable SpamAssassin, a .procmailrc needs to be created in the home directory:

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # call spamassassin :0fw | /usr/bin/spamassassin :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam

SpamAssassin includes a Bayesian learning filter, so it is worthwhile training SpamAssassin with your collection of non-spam and spam, if possible:

sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/mail/folder sa-learn --ham --mbox ~/mail/folder