You’ve heard me bitch recently about the sudden increase in 419 scam emails I have been receiving, and I finally got tired of deleting them by hand. Definitely time to give a spamkiller of some sort a try.

30 seconds of Googling later for “kmail+spam” gives me the idea that the best method for stemming the tide would be to install SpamAssassin (SA). Since I’m running a version of apt-get designed to work with SuSE, this was simply running Synaptic package manager and clicking a box.

The question then was, how do I get this thing working?

Read on to find out. Continue Reading →