Well, I think however the UNIX guy set this up before that it does actually work - somehow (I'm obviously a little light on the UNIX stuff compared to you guys!) I know that if these people weren't getting mail I would be in big trouble so they are receiving mail. And I know from looking in the queue that spam messages are getting bounced back.
I don't really know how to find out how the spam assassin is being called. I don't really know anything about qmail-scanner either. I guess I need to do some research on that. I would just like to understand the whole process and know it is set up properly because obviously it isn't set up properly :0 ;) Any ideas on where to start would be appreciated! Thanks, John McGivern -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Pasche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 19, 2003 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Spam Assassin implementation Hi John, > Somebody else had set this up a while ago - I think it is working but > I'm not sure if it is affecting other mail deliveries. Oh well, it is... > Basically I have spam assassin installed and I have a .qmail-default > in every domain folder on my server. It looks like this: > > | /var/qmail/bin/preline -d /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying \ > "[message to bounce back if not SPAM]" > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ' ' bounce-no-mailbox The first line simply bounces _everything_ back to the sender, telling him it is spam. You don't actually call any SpamAssassin program in your .qmail-default file - how do you expect SpamAssassin to be actually used in your setup? ;-) > Does this look like it should work okay with spam assassin? Definitely not. > I notice others .qmil-default files look a little different. Theirs might be hopefully working ;-) Personally, I'd prefer qmail-scanner to mark all messages with a spam analysis header, and then use dot-qmail filtering to sort them out later. Try out this, if your mail server supports qmail-scanner with SpamAssassin integration. You'll need the 822mess package from DJB to get the "822field" program. $ cat .qmail-default | bouncesaying "I don't want your spam" 822field X-Spam-Flag > /dev/null | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox It's 822field in this case that checks for the presence of the X-Spam-Flag header. If it's present, it bounces the message back to the sender. If not, it continues with the next delivery instruction. Please be aware that qmailadmin occasionally rewrites .qmail-default, causing your manual filtering rules to disappear! Jonas
