[Centos] *very* raw script for a new email server
Henk van Lingen
henkvl at cs.uu.nl
Thu Dec 9 13:40:43 UTC 2004
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:23:07AM -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> >
> > > - I have *no* idea whether or not Vipul's Razor is working or not.
> >
> > I suppose you use this at spamassassin time. Add '-D' to your spamd
> > options (/etc/init.d/spamassassin) and see in your logfiles. I maded
> > RPMs myself from the spamassassin tar and noticed the dependency on the
> > perl-DB_File package was not specified in the spamassassin spec. You
> > need that however (at least if you are doing spamassassin at local
> > delivery time like I do)
>
> See, that's the problem. amavisd-new shows in the /var/log/maillog that
> it's picking up spam assassin, whether the spamd daemon is running or not.
> It seems to flag spam whether the spamd is running or not. And I don't
> see any spam assassin headers that I recognize from earlier versions of
> SA.
>
> So, I don't know if amavis is just running the spam assassin code
> directly, or what. And I haven't been able to find much documentation on
> the subject.
I've no experience with amavis but if I understand you correctly I suppose
amavis calls spamassassin and doesn't use spamc. I would change that
for performance reasons.
> On another note, I went with dovecot instead of courier, since dovecot
> supports Maildir, which I've been wanting to use. my mbox files are
> *huge*.
Courier also can handle Maildir, even more, I don't think it can do mbox.
> I'm not familiar with Maildrop, is it a procmail alternative?
Yes: http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
( I'm currently finding out how the get it bounce messages to over
filesystemquota users. It just tempfails and I don't want my queues
filled this way :-( )
Cheers,
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