On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:53:05 -0500 "Mike Gibson" <mi...@seltel.com> wrote:
> I have recently inherited a web server with roughly 50 clients. Last > week I started getting complaints about excessive amounts of junk > mail being delivered. spamassassin should be the last line of defence, you should be using blocklists and, if possible, greylisting. >I upgraded my SpamAssassin Rules, Clam AV, > MailScanner, and SpamAssassin Engine (3.2.5 à 3.3.1), in that order. You should run sa-update *after* updating spamassassin. 3.3.1 doesn't come with any rules at all and 3.2.5 rules wont be used. > My first question is, how can I verify that I installed SpamAssassin > correctly and that it is scanning and marking messages properly. It should show up in the mail logs, you can also send a test message. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTUBE > The server shows the service as running, but this is all I have > found so far to indicate whether it is working or not. MailScanner uses SpamAssassin as a perl library, so you don't need spamd if that's what you meant by service. > Lastly, I have to manually start the service from the console each > time the server is rebooted. It used to start automatically, and > allowed me to restart the service from the Web GUI if needed. How > can I get it to start automatically again? Search on red hat init.d
