I realize this topic has been beaten to death, but I've decided to keep on poking it anyhow. It also might be a little OT. I wasn't able to find anything in the list archives similar to this, so I decided to post it in case it's useful to someone.
I needed to have SpamAssassin scan all incoming mail for a particular domain on my server. I didn't want to patch qmail and use qmail-qfilter or qmail-scanner. I don't need the server to redirect the message, delete it, or bounce it. I just want the spam to be tagged/modified and it's up to my users what they do with it from there. Here's the solution I came up with: In my .qmail-default for the domain: | spamc -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox My local.cf for SpamAssassin: rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag ***SPAM*** auto_whitelist_path ~/auto-whitelist bayes_path ~/bayes The command used to start spamd: spamd -a -d -u vpopmail -v Points of interest: I had to modify the auto_whitelist_path and bayes_path because for some reason when spamd uses vpopmail style home dir (-v option) it already puts /.spamassassin/ in the home dir path. (if I left the defaults my files would end up at ~vpopmail/domain.com/user/.spamassassin/.spamassassin/file) The following excerpt from the spamc man page explains that by using the -e option there is a small chance of losing mail: "Instead of writing to stdout, pipe the output to command's standard input. Note that there is a very slight chance mail will be lost here, because if the fork-and-exec fails there's no place to put the mail message." I can't find anything wrong with this solution, but comments are definitely welcome. Cheers, Rob Gridley, System Administrator MHz Design Communications Inc. Macs for productivity. UNIX for stability. Windows for solitaire.
