SpamAssassin and the New Mail System

If you don't know whether you're running SpamAssassin from procmail, here's how to check:

The standard Panix installation puts this line into your .procmailrc file:

INCLUDERC=/net/local/filters/rc.spamassassin

You can also check to see whether mail delivered in the old system includes a header like this:

X-Spam-Status:

First, addresses whitelisted (protected from SpamAssassin) in procmail will not be protected from webmail's SpamAssassin.
You can either

• Continue to use procmail's Spamassassin.
  or
  
• Add those addresses to the whitelist in webmail's SpamAssassin

Second, it's not useful to run both versions of SpamAssassin, so if you decide to turn on SpamAssassin in webmail, you should turn it off in procmail. If you don't use procmail for anything else, you can disable it entirely by turning off forwarding. You can do this by logging into shell.panix.com and deleting your .forward file entirely or renaming it (to, say, ".forward.old").

If you've been using procmail for other things too, but want to move to webmail's SpamAssassin, you can remove it from procmail. If you have a standard Panix procmail, just edit your .procmailrc file. Look for this line:

INCLUDERC=/net/local/filters/rc.spamassassin

#INCLUDERC=/net/local/filters/rc.spamassassin

To get to the SpamAssassin page in webmail, you click the Options link at the top of the page.

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