Re: Corrupted e-mails

[Jonathan Belson]

Hiya

>> Here is my .qmail, which runs SpamAssassin on the incoming e-mail for
>> this account:
>>
>> |/usr/local/bin/spamassassin | /usr/local/bin/maildir /home/jon/Maildir/
>> #./Maildir/
>
> well, Jon, if you look above the "#" in a dot qmail file means to drop the
> email and not deliver.

I don't quite understand what you're saying.  The second line is commented
out; the first line tells qmail to pipe the e-mail through spamassassin,
then write the result to my Maildir (using maildir).

> also, you are running S/A as a very expensive daemon above, calling the
> main S/A for each mail received...

My server is a 1GHz Athlon that spends a lot of its time twiddling its
thumbs...

> If you must do it this way, please see
>
> http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html

That's the page I got my .qmail config from.  The only difference is that
I don't use the '-P' flag since it's now the default for SA.

Just to emphasise: my Qmail/Spamassassin setup has worked fine for years;
it's only relatively recently that a very small number of e-mails have
been getting corrupted.

> I think a better way is to use the S/A client in a .qmail file, and have
> the S/A daemon running... A very nice way to do this is at.
>
> http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/qmail/ifspamh/

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Cheers,

--
Jon


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Re: Corrupted e-mails

[Gary]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:54:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> 
> For the last few months, I've had a problem where a small number (less
> than ~1 in 1000) of e-mails get corrupted.  All I have in my Maildir
> is something like the following two lines:
 
> Here is my .qmail, which runs SpamAssassin on the incoming e-mail for
> this account:
> 
> |/usr/local/bin/spamassassin | /usr/local/bin/maildir /home/jon/Maildir/
> #./Maildir/
 
> I'm inclined to blame SpamAssassin since I saw a similar problem when
> I had it misconfigured before - that was easy to track down since it
> wrote error messages in the system log left (missing p5 package).  This
> time there are no error messages, and the problem only occurs very
> occasionally.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this before?  Any clues on what could be going
> wrong?  Disabling SpamAssassin would make e-mail unusable since I
> get hundreds of spam e-mails a day.

well, Jon, if you look above the "#" in a dot qmail file means to drop the
email and not deliver. 

also, you are running S/A as a very expensive daemon above, calling the
main S/A for each mail received... 

If you must do it this way, please see 

http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html

I think a better way is to use the S/A client in a .qmail file, and have
the S/A daemon running... A very nice way to do this is at.

http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/qmail/ifspamh/

You can put this in any or all .qmail- files you have, and this works
well. 
 

-- 
Gary


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