Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4: SpamAssassin sort of working

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:42  AM, Tim Skipper wrote:
> I've succesfully installed the latest version of SpamAssassin, and hooked 
> it
> up to /etc/procmailrc.  It is catching and marking SPAM nicely, but only 
> for
> mail that is stored on the server.
>
> The majority of my users have their mail forwarded to some other external
> e-mail address, which is configured via the user settings in the GUI.  I
> would like this mail to be processed by SpamAssassin as well, but I don't
> know how to set it up.

Your problem is that SpamAssassin is called by procmail, which is the LDA 
- "Local Delivery Agent." Mail which is forwarded on is not delivered 
locally; in fact, IIRC, it never leaves sendmail. It just gets handed on.

The only way that I'm aware of to run SpamAssassin on messages which aren'
t going to be locally delivered is to reinstall sendmail (!) with 
MimeDefang, or find another way (another "milter"?) that will invoke 
SpamAssassin. I see that you asked about that this weekend; I haven't done 
that, so I don't know how it would work, but I'm interested in anything 
you find out.

pjm