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

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI - Solarspeed.net offers to install SpamAssassin for a modest fee and
they have installed it on several of our Raq4's along with some of their
other products.

It might be worth simply spending a few $$ to have it installed vs eating up
so much time and possibly causing a bigger problem on your servers if things
don't go well.

Just my two cents..

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Parker Morse
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:37 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4: SpamAssassin sort of working


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

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