[Mimedefang] Using Spamassassin's spamd/c
listuser at neo.pittstate.edu
listuser at neo.pittstate.edu
Tue Oct 15 11:05:01 EDT 2002
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Jim McCullars wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:
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> > I'm trying to figure out how to make mimedefang use SA's spamd/spamc. I
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> The Boss says don't do that:
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> http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2002-August/002027.html
Ah... I hadn't seen that message. That looks doable. I'll try setting
it up the way he indicated and see how it works.
> > 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:
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> /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf
> /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/local.cf
> /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin.cf
I was wondering what the difference was with those files. So if I run SA
from MD I should edit the specific SA files that MD provided. I can do
that.
> 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.
I believe I'd heard that before. I don't really want or need SA to edit
my file if MD can write the report and headers for me.
I was under the impression that SA's DNSBl checks didn't work when run
from MD. I could be wrong though. I never checked to see if it was true.
I'll enable querylog today and see if my DNS box is being queried for
those lists.
I was also thinking that Razor didn't work when run from MD. I should
probably check these things.
Many thanks for the info!
Justin
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