sendmail configuration

[Julian Field]

At 10:41 29/01/2004, you wrote:
>mailscanner will automatically launch spamd ?

MailScanner calls the SpamAssassin Perl interface directly, it doesn't use
any external programs  (including spamd) to do it.

>the problem is that my default sendmail.cf (or sendmail.mc) file was like
>it's said in the link i've done. i had nothing to change there !? i was
>surptised the first time when i installed it on the test workstation (RH
>9) but it was the same on the server (RH 8).

Some part of your mail configuration must have changed if it is behaving
differently from the way it used to. Either that or it always actually
behaved that way. MailScanner does not get involved with any part of
sendmail to do with any of this.

>the first time, i've made this to launch mailscanner :
>service sendmail stop
>chkconfig sendmail off
>chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
>service MailScanner start
>
>what "chkconfig sendmail off" exactly means ?

Stops the original sendmail setup starting at boot time. Starting up
MailScanner (either at boot time or by using the "service" command) will
also start up the 2 sendmail processes that MailScanner needs, in exactly
the configuration they need to be.






> > I would advise you to remove procmail again (it's extra complexity you
> > don't need). Then put your sendmail configuration back exactly the way it
> > was before you started doing all this.
> >
> > To use SpamAssassin from MailScanner, all you need to do is set
> > Use SpamAssassin = yes
> > in MailScanner.conf.
> >
> > No procmail, no extra spamd daemons, no sendmail config changes, none of
> > that stuff.
> >
> > At 10:16 29/01/2004, you wrote:
> > >thanks for your answer.
> > >
> > >i've installed procmail for spamassassin. i've found this for sendmail :
> > >http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/spamassassinopenbsd.html and
> > >i've done it with some differences.
> > >
> > >after i've installed mailscanner and in the config file, i've uncommented
> > >lines for spamassassin.
> > >
> > >but there were no relay and it appears some days (4or 5) ago
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > At 09:44 29/01/2004, you wrote:
> > > > >hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >i'm using sendmail 8.12.5 on linux redhat 8.0 and i've protected
> it from
> > > > >relay in the access file :
> > > > >localhost.localdomain    550 Go away and do not spam us anymore
> > > > >localhost    relay
> > > > >127.0.0.1   relay
> > > > >192.168.1   relay
> > > > >
> > > > >this configuration worked well.
> > > > >
> > > > >some time ago, i've installed procmail + spamassassin + mailscanner to
> > > > >filter the incomming spam. all worked well but some days ago,
> we've seen
> > > > >that our server allows relay !
> > > > >
> > > > >i tried to stop spamassassin and mailscanner but relay is always
> > > permetted !
> > > > >
> > > > >do you have an idea ? thanks !
> > > >
> > > > Why install procmail? MailScanner will happily use SpamAssassin
> without the
> > > > need for anything extra running. There is also no point in running
> spamd
> > > > either as MailScanner doesn't use it.
> > > >
> > > > If you just installed MailScanner and SpamAssassin, you do not have to
> > > > change your sendmail configuration at all. Just leave it alone.
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