fetchmail/qmail/-scanner/SpamAss. integration (was: [fetchmail-users] Hello i have problem :()

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"Ozgur YILMAZ" <mr...@gm...> writes:

> i want to local spam scanner for office
> i setup fetchmail + qmail + vpopmail + qmailscanner + SA
>  
> i fetch mail by fetchmail and i recived qmail pop3
> and SA works test command but my fetch mail is not scanned by SA

Özgür,

qmail is not a modern MTA by any standard and full of flaws that other
MTAs do not share. <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html>

> here my .fetchmailrc
>  
> poll my.externalserver.com protocol pop3
> user 'oz...@ne...' there with password 'mypass' is
> 'de...@co...' here
> mda "/usr/bin/spamc -e | /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-queue" ( i have problem this line i do not write )

What do you need vpopmail for if there is only one user?

The MDA option doesn't look correct. Spamc expects a command after -e,
and qmail-queue programs (and substitutes) expect two file descriptors
for input. One for the envelope, one for the data.

Is there a particular reason why you're using the "mda" option?
And then in a way that loses envelope information?

I wonder how you are getting messages at all with this setup, you should
get something like:  /usr/bin/spamc: option requires an argument -- e

Besides that, qmail-scanner claims to integrate with SpamAssassin - so
there should be some qmail-scanner documentation on that topic.

Try checking the documentation and understanding or describing to somebody

- what you want to achieve

- how you can get there

rather than taking lines out of a context and trying them out.

A systematic approach will probably be more successful than guessing here.

-- 
Matthias Andree