Can you explain why you'd use milter over spamassassin? Genuinely interested as we could certainly get better spam filtering... Adam King IT Systems Administrator Skipton Girls High School 01756 707600 www.sghs.org.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Dalloz" <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, 11 August, 2014 5:01:16 PM Subject: Re: Use postfix and spamd on CentOS 6 - looking for a shortest guide Am 2014-08-11 13:38, schrieb Alexander Farber: > Hello fellow CentOS-users, > > on the net there are lots of Spamassassin related HOWTOs - describing > how > to create a shell script for Postfix and how to install Spamassassin > and > start its spamd daemon - step by step. Additionally antivirus setups > are > described... > > But I have a strong feeling, that this is unneeded on CentOS 6 - > because > there are already preconfigured stock packages for postfix and > spamassassin. > > So I have installed the both packages and I have configured postfix (it > works fine). > > Also I have started the spamd (and can see it in "ps uawx") with: > > # chkconfig spamassassin on > # service spamassassin start > > So I'm just missing the connection between postfix and spamd. > > Could anybody using these 2 programs on CentOS 6 please share it with > me? [ ... ] Do yourself a favour and use a milter instead of piping each single mail through spamassassin. http://pkgs.org/centos-6/epel-x86_64/spamass-milter-0.3.2-3.el6.x86_64.rpm.html Then add something like smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter/postfix/sock inet:127.0.0.1:8891 non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters milter_default_action = accept to your Postfix' main.cf and configure the milter flags in /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter. > Thank you > Alex [ ... ] Alexander _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos