Re: Pre Queue Spam Assassin Advice

[EASY steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 13:32 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:49:45PM +0100, Steve wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I've been having some adventures with pre queue filtering with
> > SpamAssassin. This has introduced me to 'milters' which look really
> > interesting.
> > 
> > I've been trying to set up suggested spamassassin milter
> > (spamass-milter) but I'm find large gaps in my basic Linux
> > understanding.I don't mind admitting that I'm stupid and need help at
> > times. My question is more 'unix' than 'Postfix' but someone here will
> > know.
> > 
> > If I have a milter set up and it creates a 'unix socket' on start up,
> > e.g.
> > /home/mail/email/private/samilter 
> > 
> > then defining the milter in main.cf like this (bear in mind Postfix is
> > running chrooted) 
> > smtpd_milters = unix:/private/samilte 
> > milter_default_action = tempfail
> 
> "/private/samilte" != /home/mail/email/private/samiler
> 
Postfix runs chrooted and the absolute would be incorrect. It's chrooted
to /home/mail/email hence it is correct as far as I understand it.