On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:58, robert schwartz wrote:
> I'm using Qmail-Scanner + Spamassassin and it's working great (I threw
> clam av in too).  I have one question, I put Spamassassin preferences in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf but I can never seem to alter the
> default behavior of SA.  Is this an SA issue or related to how QS calls
> SA?  If anyone can point me to the right starting point here I'd
> appreciate it.

You need to understand how SpamAssassin and Qmail-Scanner works better.

The settings you make in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf affects how
"spamd" and "spamassassin" programs run. It has no affect on the "spamc"
program as that is merely a frontend for "spamd".

Qmail-Scanner exclusively uses "spamc" for performance reasons. It
either calls it as "spamc -c" (the default: "fast_spamassassin" mode),
or "spamc" (the "verbose_spamassassin" mode).

If when you say "alter the behaviour of SA" you mean - say - change the
Subject line, or encapsulate any identified spam within a separate
message, then you are referring to specific SA things - things that Q-S
has no control over. If you run "fast_spamassassin", then you are
throwing away all the cool things that SA can do to a message, and
exclusively relying on what Q-S can do: which is add a "X-Spam-Status"
header and potentially change the Subject: header. All other SA options
are only available if you run "verbose_spamassassin" mode - but there is
a performance hit for that.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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