On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 12:23 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > On 20 Jun 2020, at 4:14, Neil Romig wrote: > > > Does anyone know the status of AuthCourier.pm in Spamassassin? > > It *NEVER* has been in any way an official part of the SpamAssassin > project. I can find no evidence of it being updated since 2003. If you > have kept SpamAssassin updated since then without reproducing the manual > adaptations needed to use AuthCourier.pm, you are almost certainly no > longer using in any meaningful way. > > In general, the supported interface between SpamAssassin and 3rd-party > modules has changed so much in the past 17 years that I would not expect > AuthCourier.pm to function correctly. In addition, as you reported in > bug 7829, Perl itself has advanced in that time to the point where > relatively immature modules which worked then (e.g. with Perl 5.8.x) can > be expected to fail today with any recent version of Perl. > > > I have installed spamassassin and followed advice at > > http://da.andaka.org/Doku/courier-spamassassin.html > > but on reporting a > > bug (#7829) to Spamassassin was informed it was an "ancient" module I > > probably shouldn't be using. > > I don't want to experiment any more than necessary on my mail server > > so perhaps someone can confirm whether I need this module for my > > virtual mail users. > > You probably do not need it, since there is now direct support for > virtual users in the spamd component of SpamAssassin. I suspect that the > reason AuthCourier.pm was not maintained is that it became superfluous, > however others would need to confirm that, as I do not use that > functionality. > > Thanks for the help. Being new to Spamassassin I am trying to get my head around all the docs and was looking for a quick Howto.
Most of my online searches result in links to the outdated guidance - even on Spamassassin wiki at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/IntegratedInCourierUsingMaildrop. I have adjusted my config as suggested with --virtual-config-dir rather than using AuthCourier.pm Regards, Neil.
