On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:07, Mike Kenny wrote: > respond with any of the following: > > a) which files to look at for clues > b) a good starter or howto on spamassassin > c) pointer to where my problems are > d) anything that you feel may be helpful
Sheesh! Tall request. Amavisd is responsible for routing mail thru spamassassin (usually) via spamd. Unfortunately Amavis hides most of the spamassassin log messages, leaving you with only the outcome (carefully watching the amavis messages in /var/log/mail will reveal that is is working). Get yee to the church of amavisd.conf ;-) Your Spamassassin is backlevel. Upgrades are available from Novell. Highly recommended. One of the most effective spam catchers is Razor2. (In my shop we give Razor2 mail a high enough score to get it flagged as spam by virtue of Razor alone). Go to the razor site, download and build the agent, sign up for an ID (one for the whole site is all you need) and allow spamassassin to use Razor. It does impose some additional network traffic load. Your local network is probably trusted, and therefore not scanned for spam in outbound mail. (Again, an amavisd setting, but also look at the spamassassin local.cf to see if you have arbitrarily trusted your local network in there. (BTW: Amavis has several functions, spam scanning, virus scanning, etc. so read carefully thru the /etc/amavisd.conf and manpage, etc.) But, in spite of the overwhelming level of detail, you did not indicate the actual route of outgoing mail, so its not clear where this needs to be fixed. Its sort of odd to have spamd on the second box, but amavis is capable of doing that, and it may have been set up like that due to load balancing needs. Any book you get from O'reilly will probably be out of date. I think that book has not been updated lately, but SA is up to 3.1.4, and the latest releases are really effective. I'm supprised you don't have Ldap in Cyrus in your SLES9. That usually is the recommended solution from Novell and adds yet another layer of complexity to get your arms around. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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