On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:52 AM RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure that you are actually using spamd? You wouldn't be the
> first to run an unnecessary spamd instance while the actual
> classifications are done in a different daemon, such as amavisd, using
> the spamassassin libraries.
>
That is a fair question, I believe I am and I'll give you two different
ways that I can reason to that conclusion.
The first is that I'm running Postfix. My master.cf in Postfix has the
following chain:
smtp -> smtpd - o content_filter=spamfilter
spamfilter -> pipe /usr/local/bin/spamck -f ${sender} ${recipient}
/usr/local/spamck has in it:
cat | /usr/local/bin/spamc -u filter > checked file.
And spamc sends mail through spamd in order to check it.
Second set of reasoning.
When I first started using spamassassin I discovered that the gr_domain.cf
file was poison pilling the mail list vendors Constant Contact and
Mailchimp (among others). Since I have users that actually get mail they
want from those providers I went in and manually dialed back the scores.
That followed by sa-compile then restart, and the new scores show up in
the spam header and they stopped flagging a false positives.
That said, and it reminded me that I had also tried whitelisting some
domains in local.cf (being victims of this aggressive scoring on the
gr_domain.cf file part) and that whitelisting did *not* work. So I suppose
it is possible that my local.cf file isn't actually being used by spamd.
(which seems odd, but I'm not sure how to check that definitively)
--Chuck
