Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail and Spamassassin won't integrate

[Sean]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:13:21PM -0600, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Tim Garton:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> > I run spamassassin with exim, so can't offer all that much help, but
> > as for attempt 1 you may try running:
> > spamc -R < {some file containing full source of a sample email}
> >
> > to make sure spamassassin is running correctly.  It should spit back a
> > score and a possibly a list of tests failed, depending on how
> > spamassassin is configured.  if you don't get this, or get a score
> > like "0/0", something is wrong with your spamassassin setup.
>
> Thanks for this. 'spamc -R < testmail' was failing (hanging forever)
> while 'spamassassin < testmail' was working fine. This led me to run the
> spamc command within strace, which showed the command blocked during
> a 'connect' call to 127.0.0.7. Would you believe it was a firewall issue? I
> forgot to allow conections to localhost in my iptables script.
>
> > Also, you don't want the "-P" option anymore, it is deprecated and is
> > the default behaviour of spamassassin now.  And you definitely don't
> > want it with spamc, since it is an invalid option.  And yes, you do
> > want to use "spamc" over "spamassassin" for performance reasons.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> After confirming spamc now works I played around some more. It seems my
> ~/.qmail file was overriding the system-wide spam check in 'defaultdelivery'.
>
> I changed ~/.qmail from:
>
> |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>
> to:
>
> |spamc |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>
> ...and everything seems to be cherry now. All incoming mail now has X-Spam
> headers added.
>

qmail-scanner (mail-filter/qmail-scanner) can take care of that too, as
well as running the email through clamav (assuming you have that
installed).

-- 
Sean

  Guy in Chicken Suit:  Enjoy your chicken sandwich. 
  Stewie Griffin:  Enjoy your studio apartment.