On Friday 20 February 2009, Monky wrote:
>Hello,
>I am running the Spamd Daemon version 3.2.5 on my Linux web and mail server
>and in general it works well. From time to time (somewhere in between 1-10%
>of all emails) spam passes the filter - but not because spamassassin decides
>that it is ham but because the email never gets processed by spamassassin
>(the header shows no X-Spam at all).
>
>This is how I pass the emails to spamassassin:
>I am running qmail and each user has a identical .qmail file:
>
># more .qmail
>
>|preline /usr/bin/procmail -m .procmailrc
>
>The .procmailrc looks like this:
>
># more .procmailrc
>LOGFILE=procmail.log
>HOME=[... this folder]
>MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
>
>:0fw
>:
>|spamc
and usually in your .procmailrc there will be a stanza that checks the mails
size, and if over a certain size, skips the spamc piping. This is not I
trust the whole .procmailrc file. If it is, its broken. There is also IIRC,
a similar check for file size in spamc's config.
>|
>:0
>
>* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
>$HOME/junk
>
>:0 w
>:
>| /usr/bin/deliverquota $MAILDIR
>
>As I mentioned before everything works fine in 90+% of all incoming mails.
>Any hints on what might happen to the emails that simply get passed along
>unchecked? Could it be that if the server is busy processing other email he
>skips a few?
>Any hints are welcome, thanks in advance.
--
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