Woohoo! sendmail+cyrus+MailScanner+spamass-milter working!

[wizard]

Finally got all the mail functions back that I had *before* upgrading to FC2 ;)

spamassassin was the one I did the most headscratching over - and then I found the most excellent spamass-milter in Dag Wieers' repository.

I installed the milter, added

INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl

to sendmail.mc, ran

make -C /etc/mail

restarted sendmail, spamassassin and spamass-milter just for grins and am now happily filtering mail through spamd again. Life is good.

:)

[GiLuX]

that's really great!

i can't wait untill your tutorial gets published on this site ;)
(you are working on it right now aren't you?)

[wizard]

that's really great!

i can't wait untill your tutorial gets published on this site ;)
(you are working on it right now aren't you?)

;)

Actually I ended up ditching MailScanner for clamav-milter. Much better performance - at least on my machine.

Here's the tutorial :D

1. Get sendmail working with cyrus.

2. Install spamassassin and spamass-milter.

3. Install clamav and clamav-milter.

4. Add the following two lines to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (check paths to the sockets - these worked on my server):

INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav', `S=local:/var/clamav/clmilter.socket, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl

5. From a terminal session, issue 'make -C /etc/mail'

6. Insure sendmail has permission to talk to the sockets. This wasn't a problem in FC2 for me.

7. Make sure ScanMail is uncommented in /etc/clamav.conf

8. Start clamav, clamav-milter and spamd.

9. Restart sendmail.

Note: My setup will still pass mail if clamav-milter fails - you may not want this. If you want to bounce mail if clamav-milter fails use this line in sendmail.mc instead:

INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav', `S=local:/var/clamav/clmilter.socket, F=T, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl

enjoy!

[wizard]

And here's a mail header that shows it all working. I rewrite subject lines with spamassassin and then use a client filter to move the mail to a spam folder :)

Return-Path: <mail@damn_spammer.com>
Received: from mail.myserver.com ([unix socket])
by myserver.com (Cyrus v2.2.3-Red Hat 2.2.3-11) with LMTP; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:27:10 -0400
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
Received: from mx2.regaachieve.com (mx2.regaachieve.com [69.42.133.200] (may be forged))
by mail.myserver.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id i5OFQNSD020616
for <wizard@myserver.com>; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:26:54 -0400
To: wizard@myserver.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:24:21 -0800
Message-ID: <1088101461.220@mx2.regaachieve.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U)
From: "Online Life" <mail@damn_spammer.com>
Subject: ***spam*** spam count=14.43 Save on LifeInsurance
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_40DAF2CE.D7A33D67"
X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a
on 127.0.0.1
X-Virus-Status: Clean
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=14.4 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ROT13,
FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,HTML_60_70,HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_10,
HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HEADER_CTYPE_ONLY,MIME_HTML_NO_C HARSET,
MIME_HTML_ONLY,SAVE_ON_INSURANCE,YOUR_INCOME autolearn=no version=2.63
X-Spam-Level: **************
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on myserver.com

[blammo]

Hey Wizard, thanks for the little tutorial. I got this setup working also except that the subject line of the spam email doesn't get re-written as such. Spamassassin recognizes the spam and inserts the X-Spam headers, but it won't insert ***spam*** into the subject line. I'm thinking that I got to add something to the trusted users section of sendmail. Got any ideas? Thanks.

[wizard]

Hi, blammo -

In this instance rewriting headers is a function of spamassassin, not sendmail ;)

Here's the relevant part of my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cfrewrite_subject 1

subject_tag ***spam*** spam count=_HITS_You'll need to restart spamassassin for this to take effect, I think.

Hope this helps -

[blammo]

Thanks wizard! I found the problem to be in the startup script for spamass-milter. Apparently there is a -m arg that disables subject rewriting. Removed this little puppy from the startup script, and now it's happily rewriting the subject line. Powerful setup here! Thanks again.

[wizard]

Damn. I forgot about that :)

Thanks for pointing it out, blammo - enjoy the new mail toys :D

[bsodmike]

How do you get sendmail to forward mail to cyrus ???

update: I figured this out and finished the article (http://www.bsodmike.com/articles/sendmail&cyrus.php) covering this topic.

Thanks :)

[treborr]

Hi I am new user in fedora server, I read carefully this forum and the forum starts with using mailscanner. Then is used clamav-milter and spamass-milter.
I found webpage mailwatch for mailscanner, it seems the mailwatch is good staff.
It is possible to find something similar for the second solution with clamav-milter a spamass-mitler?
Thanks