[plug] Spamassasin Conf Nightmare

[Tim White]

I am running spamassassin=2.20-1woody from a Knoppix 3.4 hdd install, 
now Debian Testing. Apart from the annoyance of split conf files I 
really can't work out how to operate and set up the lovely thing. I also 
running Exim4 if any of you have been following some of my recent posts. 
I am thinking of installing sa-exim but I haven't even got to the stage 
that I can as I haven't' worked out spamassassin yet.
What I want to be able to do is have it filter my mail unobtrusively 
(i.e. only adding a X-spam header) and learn from all the spam it 
catches. I will have it send all the spam to another user account 
(mailbox) so that I can manage it all from there. I want to be able to 
tell it that a certain message was not spam and a certain message was. I 
want to be able to feed it a mbox full of spam for it to learn from and 
a mbox full of good stuff. I also want bypass address (plug for one) 
that never get scanned.
I don't know if it is possible but popfile, I think it is, allow you to 
login by a web interface long after the mail has been downloaded to 
change a message spam status so that it learns for next time. This would 
be nice.
I found some tutorials about setting up exim and spamassassin but I got 
lost, mainly in the spamassassin set up as the assumed that I had it set 
up. I also dislike the split config style of exim and spamassassin and 
others but I can live with it.
Anyone know of a good howto and have some suggestions? (Other than 
change to sendmail or another MTA or another spam filter)
Tim

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