[Mimedefang] STILL : MIMEDEFANG NOT TAGGING

[James Ebright]

Yes, you do need Mail::Spamassasin perl libraries installed, but you do not
need spamd. Spamd is the daemon, procmail rules hit the spamassassin script
itself.. not spamd or spamc, at least from what I have seen... (we don't use
procmail here and let end users select ham/spam/whitelist via openwebmail).

:0fw: spamassassin.lock
| /user/bin/spamassassin

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

(Straight fom the wiki)

I don't know.. maybe you would get better performance using spamc/spamd in a
sitewide install using procmail verses  /user/bin/spamassassin (probably
would, but then you woudl need to have spamd running), but I think youd get
even greater performance using mimedefang... esp if you are already using it
anyway.

Also, though I have not tested this as we have not had a need.. I believe
spamassassin will still look for a user_pref file in each users home dir and
append that config to the ones it finds in /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf whether
run from mimedefang or seperately... I know it picks up configs in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf when run from mimedefang.

Jim



On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:21:25 -0500, Rich West wrote
> I would like to clarify: You DO need Spamassassin to be installed. 
>  But, the "spamd" process it not used by MimeDefang.
> 
> HOWEVER, if you want the full capabilities of Spamassassin 
> (MimeDefang utilizes a fair amount of spamassassin's features, but 
> not individual user preferences such as whitelists and blacklists 
> per user), you DO need to run "spamd" with either a local 
> .procmailrc file (with procmail installed, of course) or a system-
> wide .procmailrc file.
> #> more /etc/procmailrc
> DROPPRIVS=yes
> 
> :0fw
> * < 256000
> | /usr/bin/spamc
> 

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