>From: Craig R Hughes >Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:19 PM >To: Jeffrey Thompson >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail + Milter + Spamassassin + Easy Administration
>Jeffrey Thompson wrote: > I'm very interested in getting spamd/spamc working in Sendmail with: > - No restriction on message size >Um, are you sure you want that? I suspect you probably don't really. Very >large files are very unlikely to be spam. Very large files also take a >very >long time to scan (while burning up CPU cycles). The default limit of 250k >from >spamc is probably pretty good 99.9999% of the time. If you *really* want >"unlimited", just set -s to something really big. But again, I don't think >you >want to really. OK you've convinced me. I don't want that. :-) >> - Easily configurable down to the user@domain for multiple (virtual) >> domains with Sendmail: something like the /etc/mail/virtuserstable that >> tells sendmail whether or not to filter for this user > >The concensus when this has been raised in the past is that this is >probably >best done exactly in something like the virtusertable, but another sensible >alternative in this situation might be for your milter to do a DB lookup >(or >LDAP, or whatever). Yes that's what I'm thinking too. >> - Run on a busy server as efficiently as possible > >Always a good idea. Good to run on a mostly-idle server as efficiently as >possible too :) >> - Run with the latest Sendmail 8.12.2 as non-root user (in >> spamd/spamc too as non-root) > >Sounds almost for sure like you're going to want to be using the SQL stuff >in >SA. If you're writing code anyway, how about a SQLBasedAddrList.pm? OK I'll check into it. >> I don't want to run Spamassassin for all users in every domain (i.e., >> spamproxyd). I also would prefer that Sendmail do it's MTA job. The key >> here is, I want to be able to easily configure the Spamassassin service >> for multiple virtual domains, and I want it to be as efficient as >> possible in the process. Anyone have this? If not, I'll proceed working >> on: >> - Sendmail 8.12.2 >> - Spamc & Spamd >> - Me writing a Sendmail milter filter that does the above > >I think most of the work to be done is going to be the >check-if-this-user-needs-scanning, and that is probably best located in the >milter, unless you figure out some easy way to get sendmail to do it (can >sendmail configure which users get miltered?) I don't think so, It seems reasonable to me to put that lookup in milter itself. >> All interested parties are welcome to join the fun :-) >> Any tips (the knowledge kind) would be appreciated. :-) > >If you don't want them, you can forward the money tips to me :) har har >> Also, if there's sufficient interest in this area, instead of having the >> discussion on this list, I could host a sub-list >> Spamassassin-sendmail-milter or something to coordinate the effort. > >We can always fork lists if that becomes an issue, but I suspect there's >probably a lot of crossover interest. OK great! Jeffrey Thompson Thompson Internet Communications, Inc. http://www.thomposonic.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
