[KLUG Members] spamassisin

[Bruce Smith]

What mail client are you using?  It seems like you are taking about a
lot of extra work since I believe SuSE 10 / Evolution uses spamassassin
for it's spam filtering.

  - BS


> I'd like to experiment with spamassasin on my suse 10 box.  The rpm  
> was
> already installed so I thought this may be a relatively easy task.   
> If I
> understand it correctly, it is anything but easy.
>
> Currently fetchmail -> sendmail -> cyrus.
>
> Greylisting is out of the question with fetchmail which is why I  
> wanted
> to try spamassasin.
>
> Spamassasin is a daemon which waits on a tcp or unix socket for a spam
> client.  The client can be spamc or spamass-milter working with  
> sendmail
> or some other possibilities.  Other possible clients can be the mail
> client agent itself like kmail I believe is capable.
>
> spamass-milter requires libmilter.  Libmilter is not an rpm.   
> libmilter
> comes with sendmail and the sendmail on suse 10 does not have the
> libmilter with sendmail.  (why not??)
>
> Sendmail will have to be recompiled.  The source rpms from suse are at
> which url.  Not found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0 .
>
> Can anyone tell me if my thinking is off??
>
> Dirk