[vox-tech] sendmail+spamassassin

[Milver S. Nisay]

Thanks a lot for the response and links, i finally got my sendmail +
mailfilter + spamassassin + f-prot works!
it works like SPAM feature of yahoo.com , finally.
//milver

----- Original Message -----
From: "ME" <dugan@passwall.com>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] sendmail+spamassassin


> Milver S. Nisay said:
> > hello there.
> > anybody can guide me to useful link on settiup up sendmail +
spamassassin.
> > my sendmail works fine. my spamassassin installed successfully.
> > my problem is it seems that sendmail does not know that spamassassin is
> > existing therefore
> > spamassassin is not working together with sendmail. anyone?
> >
> > i have RH9, sendmail-8.12.8-9.90, sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.90 .
>
> Pete gave you a link, and I'll comment with a description of where you
> should be looking in the process.
>
> SpamAssassin will only *mark* mail as being spam-like or non-spam-like
> based on criteria you give it through configuration (simplest would be the
> score threshold where by which a message is marked as spam or not.) It is
> possible that spamassassin and sendmail are working fine on your system,
> but you have not enabled a 3rd program to actually filter your messages
> based on their status as marked by SpamAssassin.
>
> It is a common misconception that SpamAssassin would pre-locate messages
> marked as spam in "greymail" or "spam" folders for you. SpamAssassin (SA)
> only marks messages. It is up to you to use a mail client's filtering , or
> something like procmail to control how messages marked as spam should be
> saved, and in what "folders."
>
> To see if SA is working, look through your messages' extended header
> information and see if you can find any reference to "spam"
>
> An example header of message tagged as spam:
> ---
> Received: from localhost by hoch.passwall.com
>      with SpamAssassin (2.62 2004-01-11);
>      Thu, 27 May 2004 05:15:03 -0700
> From: "========= ========" <=.======@==========.==>
> To: 4q2l8r@passwall.com
> Subject: ============================
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:16:47 +0000
> Message-Id: <88e801c443e4$bb6837d8$47b38be8@mbefzrbj>
> X-Spam-Flag: YES
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.62 (2004-01-11) on
hoch.passwall.com
> X-Spam-Level: ********
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=8.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_MESSAGE,
>      MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,
>      RCVD_IN_DSBL,RCVD_IN_NJABL autolearn=no version=2.62
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_40B5DBC7.31699B1D"
> ---
>
> In my case, I have procmail search the header of messages for
> "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and then drop the message in my "spam" folder. Search
> your spam-like messages... maybe they are being marked, but not handled by
> the 3rd part of the picture, a procmail or client filter which uses this
> header information.
>
> If none of your messages are being marked, then it is a matter of having
> sendmail process incoming messages.  Just how you have sendmail do this
> depends on your SA setup. If you have global SA settings (no single user
> settings) then you can have sendmail "call" SA to scan in one way, while
> if you want each user to have separate configs for SA, then you can use
> spamd and have spamc help with this and call spamc in another way.
>
> --
>
> So your job is to find out which case is true. If the first case it true,
> then work on procmail or another filtering to use the header data to
> determin where messages should be places. If the second one is true,
> research the integration aspects of having sendmail "call" spamassassin or
> spamc when spamd is running.
>
> HTH,
> -ME
>
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