[CentOS] Use postfix and spamd on CentOS 6 - looking for a shortest guide

[Valeri Galtsev]

while you haven't settled on anything you could consider amavisd as well...

http://www.amavis.org/

On Mon, August 11, 2014 11:43 am, Adam King wrote:
> Can you explain why you'd use milter over spamassassin? Genuinely
> interested as we could certainly get better spam filtering...
>
> Adam King
> IT Systems Administrator
> Skipton Girls High School
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Dalloz" <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, 11 August, 2014 5:01:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Use postfix and spamd on CentOS 6 - looking for a
> shortest guide
>
> Am 2014-08-11 13:38, schrieb Alexander Farber:
>> Hello fellow CentOS-users,
>>
>> on the net there are lots of Spamassassin related HOWTOs - describing
>> how
>> to create a shell script for Postfix and how to install Spamassassin
>> and
>> start its spamd daemon - step by step. Additionally antivirus setups
>> are
>> described...
>>
>> But I have a strong feeling, that this is unneeded on CentOS 6 -
>> because
>> there are already preconfigured stock packages for postfix and
>> spamassassin.
>>
>> So I have installed the both packages and I have configured postfix (it
>> works fine).
>>
>> Also I have started the spamd (and can see it in "ps uawx") with:
>>
>>     # chkconfig spamassassin on
>>     # service spamassassin start
>>
>> So I'm just missing the connection between postfix and spamd.
>>
>> Could anybody using these 2 programs on CentOS 6 please share it with
>> me?
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Do yourself a favour and use a milter instead of piping each single mail
> through spamassassin.
>
> http://pkgs.org/centos-6/epel-x86_64/spamass-milter-0.3.2-3.el6.x86_64.rpm.html
>
> Then add something like
>
> smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter/postfix/sock
> inet:127.0.0.1:8891
> non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters
> milter_default_action = accept
>
> to your Postfix' main.cf and configure the milter flags in
> /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter.
>
>> Thank you
>> Alex
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Alexander
>
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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University of Chicago
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