while you haven't settled on anything you could consider amavisd as well... http://www.amavis.org/ On Mon, August 11, 2014 11:43 am, Adam King wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos