4.35.11: new to DCC, did I do it right?

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Gang,
>
> I'm a newbie to using DCC, my setup is: MS 4.35.11, SA 3.0.1, perl 5.8.5.
> I've been using razor for a while.  I'm wondering if I did DCC correctly.
>
> I built dcc with:
>
> ./configure --homedir=/opt/dcc --bindir=/opt/dcc/bin --disable-dccm
> --with-uid=26
>
> where uid 26 is "mailnull" on my system, and installed it.  I opened up
> port
> 6277 udp and tcp in my firewall, just like dns (port 53). I took a look
> thru the various files in the dcc homedir, and made minor changes to
> dcc_conf
> and whiteclnt.  Then I stopped mailscanner, set the correct path to dccproc
> in etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  Restarted MS, and watched the syslog.
> I see "DCC_CHECK 2.17" in syslogging of SpamAssassin information.
>
> Uhhh, is that all there is to using DCC?  Things to look out for?  Gotchas?
> Did I miss something, or is it really that simple?

Most of the people don't tweak anything.  I just do a ./configure and
then the usual make commands.

Best way to see if it works is using the spamassassin -D --lint -p
/prefs/file/path or MailScanner in debug mode.

If you get DCC_CHECK scores, you seem to be fine.

>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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