[Mimedefang] Using Spamassassin's spamd/c

[Jim McCullars]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to make mimedefang use SA's spamd/spamc.  I

   The Boss says don't do that:

http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2002-August/002027.html


> I understand that using SA with MD prevents a lot of SA features from
> working.  The way I understand it, no SA config files are read when SA is
> run for MD and the MD SA config files are greatly limited in what actually
> works.  If any one can speak to this, I'd appreciate it.  I'm not sure
> what all I'm missing out on.

   The default SA rules files are read.  If you want to use local rules
(like to whitelist someone), mimedefang.pl looks in the following places:

	/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf
	/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/local.cf
	/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin.cf

Using SA under MD will prevent any SA feature that wants to change the
message, from working.  That's why the code in mimedefang-filter is there
to put in the X-Spam-Score: header - because SA can't do that if running
under MD.  All it can do is assign a score.

   HTH...

Jim
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