No SpamAssassin report with MailScanner?

[Richard Ahlquist]

In the mailscanner.conf file usually found in /etc/mail make sure the
option for SpamAssassin says NO.

Then see if you have a file named procmailrc in the /etc directory (or
wherever else you put procmail if you have procmail configured
differently). If there isnt just create the file. It should contatin theses
lines


:0fw

| spamassassin -P

As I mentioned before if your setup is typical then if you don't want
everyone to get their email run through spamassassin, then, instead of
putting that file in, /etc put it in the home directory of each user who
wants spamassassin run on their mail. Example if jdoe wanted this on my
system I would put a file named ".procmailrc" in /home/jdoe/ inside that
file would be the lines I mentioned above for the /etc/procmailrc file.

NOTE: If the file is in /etc it is named "procmailrc" if it is in a users
home directory its ".procmailrc"

Thats it. This causes Mailscanner to launch sendmail, mail comes in, gets
mailscanned, gets handed to procmail for delivery and gets spam scanned. I
hope that answers Kelly's question too.

Least thats the way I understand it, and I think it works well that way.
May not be as smooth as Lewis mentions, but its the only way I know to get
the full report.

YMMV
Richard



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonothon Ortiz" <jon at XNEXT.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: No SpamAssassin report with MailScanner?


> Richard, would you mind specifying where we add this at? Thanks!
>
>
>
> The way I have gotten Mailscanner and Spamassassin to work together using
> procmail is to have Mailscanner running configured for NO spamassasin and
> then calling Spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc like this.
>
> :0fw
>
> | spamassassin -P
>
> Alternately if you want it to only work for some users you can put it in
> their /home/usernamehere/.procmailrc
> This will provide the full functionality of both programs.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Richard