Re: [cobalt-users] Spamassasin how to turn off ?

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:14 AM 10/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> someone wrote:
> > Hello Tunc,
> > I would presume that you have it integrated with MailScanner? Edit the 
> > mailscanner.conf file. Reset the 'Spam Checks = yes' to 'no.' Then run 
> > '/etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner reload'. If reload is not an option (I'm 
> > assuming you are running the old Bassi rpm; I run MailScanner 4.24), you 
> > will have to 'restart' mailscanner, which shuts down the 
> > sendmail/mailscanner daemons for a quick a moment.
> > Spamd only runs when mailscanner calls it. So everytime mailscanner 
> > transfers mail over to spamd, it is literally restarted. Not sure why you 
> > want to do it the way you want to?
>
> Not quite true.
>
> Julian Field, the author of MailScanner has said that MailScanner doesn't 
> use spamd/spamc or the spamassassin command line script.  See: 
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0205&L=mailscanner&P=R26115&I=-1
>
> However, since MailScanner uses the Perl API for SpamAssassin, restarting 
> MailScanner effectively restarts SpamAssassin.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Richard.

If this is an unrelated question, please let me know:

If this is the case, why does SpamAssassin not work on the RaQ AT ALL, 
until you start using procmail to call spamc (sorry!) to handle incoming mail?

/etc/procmailrc:

        DROPPRIVS=yes
#
        :0fw
        * < 256000
        | spamc

I ask because, I'd like to understand all of this a lot better.

Thanks,
Glenn