This is a shorter request for clarification (see previous longer post for details) about our attempt to replace our pure sendmail with DNSBL filtering policy with one based on sendmail 8.13.1, amavisd-new-2.1.2 in the "milter" configuration and spamassassin (spamd ??) 3.0.4
What we want to achieve is that : filtering is all performed on one of our "entrance" MX machines; spam is quarantined (not tagged and not delivered to recipient) ; spam generates an explanatory reject error (to inform generators of false positives) ; the other messages are forwarded to the user workstations (NO centralized delivery) ; we exploit the spamassassin auto-learning and auto-whitelisting capabilities. Now my first question (which I did not ask yesterday) is more of architectural nature : QUESTION 0) is spamd necessary ? In our present configuration we start (in the order) : spamd, amavisd-new with its milter, sendmail. I thought the milter will act as an intermediate layer between sendmail and amavisd-new and the latter was talking with spamd but now I have the doubt that it calls spamassassin modules directly without need of spamd Shall we run spamd or not ? Having realized that the default milter coming with amavisd-new does not perform full spamassassin header editing, we remain with the more radical doubt QUESTION 5) bayes autolearn and autowhitelist Are these spamassassin features working in milter configuration, or are they forbidden ? In latter case is there a workaround ? The above question is quite relevant. We thought to "train" the bayes filter with a collection of old spam (we plan to do it next week), but if it does not autolearn, is there any sense with it ? I also have a curiosity question QUESTION 3) Hits: - in syslog We see in the mail log some "amavis Passed CLEAN" entries which have a non-numeric spamassassin score (Hits: -). Is this related to $sa_timeout ? Should we raise this timeout to a value higher than default ? Will it be honoured in milter configuration ? Many thanks for any hint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
