On Friday 14 May 2004 06:30 pm, Young, Darren wrote:
> Wondering if anyone on the list has successfully integrated Spam
> Assassin with iPlanet Message Server / Sun One Message Server? If so,
> can you provide some pointers on where to find assistance with this type
> of configuration.
>
> Also, are there any sources of "commercial" Spam Assassin designed for
> use with iPlanet / Sun One?
>
> Darren Young
> Senior UNIX Administrator
> University of Chicago
> Graduate School of Business
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: 773-702-0331

This has been asked before and has gone unresponsive so far.

 I have familiarity with Sun One and I'm not sure I would reccommend 
integrating SA with it. About the only way I could think to do it would be to 
route all mail destined for the tcp_local channel through a custom 
pipe_spamassassin channel in the imta.cnf rules file.

The pipe_spamassassin channel will be implemented via a unix pipe (like the 
postfix pipe transport). This is defined in job_controller.cnf. The pipe 
channel would pipe the message into a shell script that would then write it 
out to a temporary file. The script would then call spamc against the file, 
somehow dealing with the spaminess/haminess of the message. The final issue 
would be reinjecting the mail back into the normal processing stream (aka 
tcp_local or the ims channel).

The impact on performance would be immense. I would reccommend investigating 
putting some proxy mtas in front of your Sun One mail system. Maybe a postfix 
+ amavis-new + spamassassin + clamav combo. All the AV solutions for Sun One 
that I've seen use this pipe + shell script combo to integrate the scanner 
into Sun One.

The Sun One mta has some nice features that makes its performace worth while. 
On the downside I feel this is drastically offsetted by its configuration 
complexity and it's lack of features in some areas. This causes me to stick 
with postfix in almost all scenarios. Especially considering what Sun One 
costs.

Cheers,
Jeremy

 

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