antispam - postfix+cyrus+spamassassin+sanitizer
greetings
that recent thread about 'best anti spam thing' got me thinkin
again about trying spamassassin.
I've been wanting to try it for a while but haven't gotten around
to it. So today i dove in!
I followed the directions loosly here:
http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html
I am not using procmail(because of cyrus), so that portion I ignored
but I am using the filter.sh script with postfix. I had to compile/install
spamassasin, spamc, and libnet-smtp-server-perl from testing and installed
it. It seems to be working after some trouble. The guide above seems
to configure postfix in a non chroot enviornment which is not debian's
default. So I went through the pains of setting up a valid chroot
enviornment in /var/spool/postfix so that all of the tools could work
(perl, libraries etc). But it seems the system doesn't run that script
in chroot so I think I can remove it? That is, despite telling postfix
"-" to chroot(default yes) it still writes the log to the real /tmp
and uses the real /usr/local/var/spool/filter instead of the
/var/spool/postfix/usr/local/var/spool/filter. I sent a few test messages and
they came back with some new headers so I think it is working:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0
tests=MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,
SPAM_PHRASE_00_01
version=2.42
X-Spam-Level: ***
X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized!
X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/
X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $
So my main question is does anyone on the list have any experiences
with the above combo of software(in subject line) on woody that they
could share with me? Is there a better way to impmliment spamassasin?
and any tuning tips? For the moment I turned off all checks in
sanitizer just so I could be sure that the script works, after watching
my mail logs for a few more hours for any errors I will start turning
back on some of the default options to see if it causes trouble.
thanks!
nate
(spamassassin & sanitizer newbie)
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