James B. Byrne wrote:
> I have a problem getting spamd and sendmail (both stock CentOS4 rpms)
> to work together on a couple of smtp relay machines. This is clearly
> a configuration issue and no doubt revolves around my lack of
> comprehension of how this is to work.
>
> Basically, the setup consists of two frontend public smtp transports
> that redirect all email through a firewall to an internal imap server
> for final delivery. The firewall and sendmail access map prohibit
> connections to the imap server except for the local MX gateway. The
> external MX gateway is a fallback mx server that routes everything it
> queues through the primary gateway.
>
> So:
>
> MX 2 routes to MX 1 that routes to IMAP
>
> MX 2 and MX 1 are running spamd.
>
> the sendmail.m4 file has the following at its very end:
>
> dnl #
> dnl # MAILERs are always last after all FEATURES are defined
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
>
> The contents of /etc/procmailrc are:
>
> :0fw
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
>
>
> Spamd is running on both.
>
> There is a local configuration rule set in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
>
> Passing a test message through spamc on MX 1 or MX 2 does not seem to
> pick up this rule even for messages constructed to trigger it.
> Passing spam messages through spamc -R identifies messages that have
> passed through the relays without any spam tags as being high scoring
> spam.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Jim
Procmail can only take action on locally delivered mail. I suggest using
MailScanner for a complete, free & open solution.
http://www.mailscanner.info http://wiki.mailscanner.info
Other people will probably recommend Amavis, but I've never used it.
