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Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanning + SpamAssassin

At 02:21 PM 8/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:50:37 -0400, Glenn Parsons wrote
> Should you wish to try, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND this document:
>
> http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/cobalt/procmail.html


Excellent site.  I've studied it in detail.
However, and not to hijack the thread, but how can I make MailScanner and SpamAssassin work together? I'm running a stock RaQ4R with the generous and talented Steve Bassi's mailscanner 
package.
any advice appreciated :-) just hoping to foment a productive discussion and solve my own 
mounting spam problems.

best regards
Nathan Marentette
nathan@architectsalliance dawt com


Nathan,
With your present MailScanner in place, install the supporting Perl for SpamAssassin, install SpamAssassin, turn-on SpamAssassin for MailScanner in the /home/opt/MailScanner/etc/mailscanner.conf and then plug-in the /etc/procmailrc recipe or ~/.procmail recipes for each individual. That will pipe the mail through SpamAssassin. 

Also:
1) I advise pre-scouring everything in /home/opt/MailScanner/etc/. All your configs for mailscanner reside here. All the configs for SpamAssassin will be read from here. Any modifications to SpamAssassin configs should be done here! 2) DO NOT use CPAN! Update the Perl by hand unless you are very skilled with cpan. Otherwise you will end up with a newer Perl and a very messed-up Cobalt.
Cheers.