Re: [webmin-devel] Webmin pre-release 1.119, Spamassassin config & spamd vs. spamassassin

[Dave V. A. <da...@va...>]

Jamie,

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:09, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> Dave Van Abel wrote:
> > Issue #1: SpamAssassin Mail Filter -> Setup Procmail For SpamAssassin
> > 
> > Doc on page says: This form can be used to setup Procmail in 
> > /etc/procmailrc to run SpamAssassin on all email messages received by 
> > your system. However, this will only have any effect if your mail server 
> > has been configured to use Procmail for local delivery, or for users 
> > whose .forward files are set up to run Procmail.
> > 
> > Question: Before doing this, what effect does this have on Usermin 
> > configurations that have already been setup for SpamAssassin and are 
> > using it already?
> 
> If you use the Webmin module to setup procmail globally to run 
> SpamAssassin and direct spam to some different file, this processing 
> will happen before individual users' procmail configurations are 
> processed.
> 
> This may mess up individual users' SpamAssassin setups, unless they 
> are all identical and have the same effect as whatever global 
> configuration you put in space (such as delivering to ~/mail/spam).
> 
Safe, everyone is setup the same as global.

> > Issue #2: spamassassin vs.spamd
> > 
> > Question: I want to assume spamassassin is being used? Can either be 
> > configured? And if so, how?
> > 
> > Comment for Spamassassin 2.60: I have the latest release of SpamAssassin 
> > 2.60 and spamd does not start properly on Redhat 9.0
> 
> Currently, the module does not worry about spamd/spamc at all - it 
> just edits /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf , which should be used by 
> spamd and the regular spamassassin command.
> 
I will have to investigate this local.cf to see what it uses, and
hopefully get it to use spamd, if I think it is runable on RH 9.0

Thks,

Dave

PS: No problems with pre-releases today. All seem fine so far.

>   - Jamie
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