Re: [Cooker] Mandrake mail server - Postfix, Spamassassin & Razor

[magic]

Martin Fahrendorf wrote:

  Actually, spamassassin as setup runs as a deamon (spamd), and hooks
into Postfix as a filter.
   

So how do you feed the mails from postfix into spamd and how does spamd 
handles the mail back to postfix?
 

I am not going to pretend I understand everything, but he's my (over 
simplified) explaination:

  Postfix gets an email (inbound)
  Postfix content filter (spamfilter.sh) passes email to spamd, using 
spamc (spamc is a light-weight client for spamd).
  Upon completion, the processed email is reinjected into postfix 
(through another content filter) for delivery.

  The content filters are configured in /etc/postfix/master.cf:

# SpamAssassin-start
spamfilter unix - n n - - pipe
user=spamfilter argv=/etc/mail/spamfilter.sh -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}
smtp inet n - y - - smtpd
-o content_filter=spamfilter:
smtp unix - - y - - smtp
-o content_filter=spamfilter:
# SpamAssassin-end
  Hope this helps!

  S