[Cialug] Mailfiltering

[Tony Bibbs]

K, I assume hooking up SpamAssassin works in a similar manner then?

--Tony

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> No, postfix as the "content_filter" option that will send it off to
> amavis.  What you will want to reconfigure is add another smtp section
> to master.cf that is a high-port, usually like 10025, so when amavis
> sends the message back it doesn't get stuck in a scanning loop.  But
> then if you ever want to disable amavis it is just comment out the one
> line and restart.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 09:49 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>>Will I have to reconfigure postfix to listen on a different port still? 
>>And then have all this mailfiltering stuff listening on port 25
>>
>>--Tony
>>
>>Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>
>>>You can easily run amavis/sa/clam on the same box, shouldn't have to run
>>>seperate boxes.  Just instead of sending amavis to a remote IP send it
>>>to localhost instead.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:12 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>OK, so I've been using TMDA to stop spam and it works great since it is 
>>>>an opt-in type of implementation.  However, I'm still seeing ridiculous 
>>>>amounts of spam in the tmda-pending queue and I'd like to now kill this 
>>>>stuff as it comes as oppose to letting TMDA age the messages out of my 
>>>>mail queue.
>>>>
>>>>I've been doing some reading on Gentoo specific how-tos on using 
>>>>spamassassin/amavis-new/clamav but they all assume some monstrosity of a 
>>>>setup where you have a mail filter(s) in front of the mail server  I 
>>>>simply don't have the ability to do that so I need to run on this on the 
>>>>same server.  Is there any good how-to on getting this going.  I'm 
>>>>currently running postfix with a mysql backend so I'd like to not 
>>>>'break' anything there as part of this.
>>>>
>>>>--Tony
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