[Mimedefang] mimedefang letting some spams through...why?

[Tony]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] mimedefang letting some spams through...why?


> Tony wrote:
>
>> I'm going around in circles here, as a beginner it's hard to 
>> understand
>> cryptic replies. Are you saying I should restore the above commands 
>> and
>> look for the 'double-scan' problem elsewhere?
>
> No.
>
> Here's how the mail flow works:
>
> 1) During the DATA phase of the SMTP conversation, the mail is scanned
> by MIMEDefang.  If you happen to call SpamAssassin from MIMEDefang, 
> then
> the mail gets scanned by SpamAssassin.
>
> 2) AFTER Sendmail concludes the SMTP conversation (by replying to the 
> final
> "." with a 2xx SMTP reply code), the mail gets handed over to the 
> delivery
> agent.  In your case, that's procmail.
>
> 3) The spamc line in .procmailrc calls SpamAssassin *again*, but this
> time as you (not the defang user) and after MIMEDefang has utterly 
> finished
> with the message.
>
> 4) When the spamc command returns (possibly having altered the mail), 
> procmail
> drops it into your INBOX.

ok thanks for this info David, I appreciate it and it makes things 
clearer. Based on what you say I will leave things as they are - without 
the spamc entry in procmailrc - and keep an eye on my mail log. I know 
when an email has been rejected by MD because I see that specific reject 
in the mail log.