MailScanner & SA results

[Jules Field]

On 16/01/2010 17:05, Dudi Goldenberg wrote:
> Hello Kai,
>
>    
>> The mail server adds required headers, thus the rules firing on the
>> missing required headers cannot fire in MS anymore. The milter runs
>>      
> before
>    
>> MTA acceptance, MS runs after MTA acceptance and processing.
>> The only thing that isn't explained by that are the missing clamav
>> results. That's obviously because you are using it with different
>> configurations. You should also be aware that MS can probably make much
>>      
>    
>> better use of clamav directly.
>>      
> Well,
>
> My goal is to reject as much as possible at the gate, so far, SA +
> ClamAV plugin is proving very effective.
>
> Without digging into MS code, I assume it calls spamd and collects the
> results.
>    
It doesn't use spamd, it talks directly to the SpamAssassin function 
library. It does not use the "spamassassin" script or anything 
inefficient like that.
> If this is true, I don't see how different configs are being used.
>
> On top of that, I have another identical server, running the same
> config, just with a very old MS version.
>
> The above system does see all SA test&  scores, I've tried everything
> but rape and still could not find why this system behaves differently.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dudi
>    

Jules

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