Tim Alberts wrote:
John Hinton wrote:
There are milters for SpamAssassin. You can set them to reject mail at a particular score level. So, if for instance you felt comfortable with rejecting mail at a score of 10, which is pretty reliable, you can also do that at smtp level.
BINGO That's exactly what I'm trying to do with spamass-milter. However it either won't do it, or my configuration is incorrect. Mail marked as spam is still being delivered as normal?
It's how the milter is started. This is my slightly edited spamass-milter init.d file.
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#!/bin/bash # # Init file for Spamassassin sendmail milter. # # chkconfig: - 80 20 # description: spamass-milter is a daemon which hooks into sendmail and routes \ # email messages to spamassassin # # processname: spamass-milter # config: /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter # pidfile: /var/run/spamass-milter
source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions source /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -x /usr/sbin/spamass-milter ] || exit 1
### Default variables SOCKET="/var/run/spamass.sock" EXTRA_FLAGS="-r 10" SYSCONFIG="/etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter"
### Read configuration [ -r "$SYSCONFIG" ] && source "$SYSCONFIG"
RETVAL=0 prog="spamass-milter" desc="Spamassassin sendmail milter"
start() { echo -n $"Starting $desc ($prog): " daemon $prog -p $SOCKET -f $EXTRA_FLAGS RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog return $RETVAL }
stop() { echo -n $"Shutting down $desc ($prog): " killproc $prog RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog return $RETVAL }
restart() { stop start }
case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|reload) restart ;; condrestart) [ -e /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart RETVAL=$? ;; status) status $prog RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}" RETVAL=1 esac
exit $RETVAL
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The key line is up there with Socket.... Extra Flags. The EXTRA_FLAGS="-r 10" line means that any email scoring 10 or above is rejected. Set this to whatever level you feel comfortable with. Personally after many years at this stuff... I think 10 is more accurate than a human. Delivering spam scored between 5 and 10 is not so bad.
From the docs....
-r nn Reject scanned email if it greater than or equal to nn. If -1, reject scanned email if SpamAssassin tags it as spam (useful if you are also using the -u flag, and users have changed their required_hits value).
My sendmail.mc entry
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
Have fun!
John Hinton