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Hello all, |
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I am quickly getting to the hair-pulling stage because I cannot accomplish the |
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simple setup of qmail and spamassassin. There is lots of docs out there, but |
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they all suggest completely different ways of doing things. |
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Here's what I have: |
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netqmail-1.05-r8 |
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dovecot-1.0.13-r1 |
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spamassassin-3.2.1-r1 |
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These are all installed, and presumably working fine. That is: qmail is |
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accepting and delivering mail, spamd starts and runs with no errors, and I am |
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able to log in and get my mail using Dovecot and IMAP. |
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What I am trying to accomplish: |
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I just want qmail to run all incoming mail through spamassassin and add X-Spam |
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header for all spam it finds before it is delivered locally. With this I |
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shall be able to use .dovecot.sieve to place it in a spam folder for quick |
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review and deletion. |
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Here's a few attempts I have made to integrate spamassassin, and the results: |
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Attempt 1 (Docs: [0]): |
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* emerge 'safecat' to get 'maildir' binary. |
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* Put "| spamassassin -P | maildir ./Maildir/" |
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in "/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery" |
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Result: |
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* mail is still delivered, but is not processed by spamassassin. |
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* It is my understanding that "X-Spam-Status" header should be added even if |
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the mail is not identified as spam. |
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Problems: |
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* Reading spamassassin docs leads me to believe that there is no "-P" option, |
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and that I should really be using 'spamc'. I tried replacing spamassassin |
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with spamc in "/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery". No effect. |
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Attempt 2 (Docs: [1]): |
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* emerge 'mess822' (required by ifspamh) |
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* emerge 'ksh' (ifspamh is ksh script) |
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* Place 'ifspamh' in /usr/local/bin |
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* setup .qmail and .qmail-spam as per docs |
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Result: |
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* No mail delivery at all. No obvious errors in any logs, mail just dries up. |
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Attempt 3 (Docs: [2]): |
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* emerge 'qmail-scanner' |
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Result: |
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* emerge hangs forever while searching for plugins to add to |
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qmail-scanner-queue.pl. Some testing shows that the process is using no |
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resources, so: it's hanging doing nothing?!? |
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Problems: |
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* 'clamav' (a dependancy of qmail-scanner) emerge failed with something about |
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a gcc bug, and suggested I use a different compiler. I switched |
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to 'i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6' from 'i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1' and it compiles. |
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* Cannot get qmail-scanner to compile at all. |
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* Dead-end. |
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There is another method I have found, using simscan [3] but it seems to |
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require yet another third-party binary , and a patch to qmail, so I am not |
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really interested in trying, especially with all the failed attempts so far. |
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Conclusion: |
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Spamassassin and Qmail hate me. |
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Does anyone on this list have spamassassin integrated with qmail at the MTA |
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level? I would be very interested in which method you used, and your configs. |
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Is there something else I am missing? |
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Any other info you need please just ask. |
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[0] http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html |
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[1] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInQmailWithIfspamh |
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[2] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInQmailWithQmailScanner |
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Thanks, |
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-d |
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-- |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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