On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 10:50 -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: > On 4/9/10 10:31 AM, "hateSpam" <khwaja_a...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Thanks a lot for replies. Do I have to install Amavisd-new and ClamAV to get > > spamassassin working? Is there any other way to configure spamassassin with > > postfix not installing additional software? > > Yes, there are hundreds of ways to integrate spamassassin and clamav. > Amavisd-new is one of the easiest to get right. > > * You could run the clamd milter, which requires a fairly recent version of > postfix to support. > > * You could call spamassassin at delivery time from procmail, which requires > that all of your dovecot users have actual user accounts (they might anyway) > > * there are plenty of other integration glue packages, such as mailzu, > mailscanner, mimedefang > You can also run spamc directly in a Postfix service. Slightly different approaches are given below:
http://www.ivankristianto.com/os/ubuntu/linux-spam-filter-with-spamasassin/595/ http://www.xnote.com/howto/postfix-spamassassin.html NOTE: both of these merely run spamc to mark up received mail. You'll still need to separate spam from ham, either by having your users configure their MUAs to put spam in a separate mail filter or by using a procmail recipe to do the same thing - of course you can use a common recipe that's used by all mail recipients. Martin
