Mailscanner + spamassassin +Razor + Pyzor + DCC

[Scott Silva]

Matt Kettler spake the following on 3/14/2007 11:05 AM:
> Nicolas Canepa wrote:
>> Hi, I am using Mailscanner with spamassassin. For what i've read you can
>> define in Mailscanner.conf to use pyzor, razor and dcc, or tell
>> spamassassin to use razor, pyzor and dcc in the local.cf file.
> 
> Em, no. you can define it in MailScanner.cf, spam.assassin.prefs.conf, or local.cf.
> 
> You cannot define it in MailScanner.conf, which is a MailScanner config file.
> Mailscanner.cf on the other hand is a spamassassin config file, and lives in the
> spamassassin site rules directory.
Actually, mailscanner.cf is supposed to be a softlink to
spamassassin.prefs.conf. If you have something else, you are breaking the
reason that this was done.
> 
>> What's the best choice? 
> 
> MailScanner.cf and local.cf are functionally equal to SA.
> 
> Technically (by the SA docs) many of these settings don't belong in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf, and will be ignored if present there (but in practice,
> SA currently honors them because of how MS invokes SA).
> For most of us, spam.assassin.prefs.conf is just a symlink to MailScanner.cf anyway.
> 
> What happens if I tell both to use it?
> 
> Should work fine.
> 
>> How can I know that razor pyzor and dcc are working?
> 
> First, get it working in SA:
> 
> Assuming SA 3.1.0 or higher, make sure the plugins are not commented out in your
> spamassassin *.pre config files. If the plugin isn't loaded, it won't run.
> 
> Run spamassassin --lint. Fix any complaints.
> 
> Feed a test message into spamassassin -tD. Look at the debugs, you should see
> several debug messages for each tool SA is querying.
> 
> 
>>From there, reload (or restart) MailScanner, and check for the rules hitting in
>  your logs.
> 
> 


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