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

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

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?

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

Thanks, Dave

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

[<ra...@si...>]

  My appologies for using this list for mentioning another component.
There is a utility called MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) that lives
between the MTA (i.e. sendmail, etc.) and user delivery.  It also allows
SpamAssassin to be used selectively for users/domains, or on all e-mail.

  If you are interested in using SpamAssassin for your mail server, it
disconnects the mail agent from spam checking (it also has other
facilities, such as virus scanning, and attachment filename rules).  And
it will certainly make Issue 2 obsolete.  Check to see if this might
resolve some of your issues.

  To keep this message Webmin related, there is a Webmin module to
configure MailScanner (can be found via the MailScanner web page).

rf


On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, 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?
>
> 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
>
> Thanks, Dave
>
>
>
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Re: [webmin-devel] Webmin pre-release 1.119, Spamassassin config & spamd vs. spamassassin

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

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).

> 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.

  - Jamie

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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