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Integrating Spam Assassin with Postfix

Posted:
Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:02 pm
by kalinga
1. Install SpamAssassin
if you need any help visit
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
add a user call spamfilter with out shell.
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adduser spamfilter -s /sbin/nologin
2. Setup Postfix
edit the master.cf
add the line
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spamfilter unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Rq user=spamfilter argv=/usr/local/bin/spamfilter -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}
edit the SMTP as
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smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
-o content_filter=spamfilter:dummy
now creat a file call
/usr/local/bin/spamfilter
eg
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vi /usr/local/bin/spamfilter
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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/spamc | /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -i "$@"
exit $?
now chnage the owner of the file to spamfilter
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chown spamfilter /usr/local/bin/spamfilter
now set permisson as
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chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/spamfilter
thats it your done.
now reload postfix
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/etc/init.d/postfix reload
thats it... your done.
/usr/bin/spamc does not exist on 3.1.0 install on FC4

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:38 pm
by delleray
Hi
Just 'upgraded' from 2.x on Fc4 to 3.1.0
de-installed old and did a clean install of 3.1.0 from the fc4 rpm.
it does not install an executable at /usr/bin/spamc since it is a perl based app.
so the script would not work.
d.

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:54 pm
by kalinga
u can you use the perl cpan shell to install the uptodate SpamAssasin or just use the
/usr/bin/spamassassin
insted of the
/usr/bin/spamc
make sure the path is right.
let me know if you need any help.
3.1 spamassassin

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:58 pm
by delleray
K.
The clean install of 3.1 does not install any binaries as it is a perl module.
so there is no /usr/bin entries.
d.

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:27 pm
by kalinga
Hi,
just did a test with FC4 without using the FC4's RPM;s just using the cpan shell,
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perl -MCPAN -e shell
install MD5 LWP MIME::Base64 Mail::Internet Archive::Tar Archive::Zip IO::Wrap IO::Stringy Unix::Syslog MIME::Base64 MIME::Words MIME::Head MIME::Body MIME::Entity MIME::Parser Net::SMTP Net::DNS Net::Ping Net::Server Net::Server::PreForkSimple Convert::TNEF Convert::UUlib MIME::Decoder::Base64 MIME::Decoder::Binary MIME::Decoder::Gzip64 MIME::Decoder::NBit MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint MIME::Decoder::UU Time::HiRes Digest::SHA1 Digest::Nilsimsa Getopt::Long File::Copy Bit::Vector Date::Calc Mail::SpamAssassin
it works like a charm....
SA 3.1 and perl

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:42 pm
by delleray
Now I have found that the system was upgraded with YUM
and to get 3.1 only the perl version was taken hence no binaries.
installing from RPM pbone net picked up the 3.1.0 fc4 and that comes with the perl stuff so the binaries are there.
currently using procmail it works; once client traffic drops will do via content filtering.
tks
d.

Posted:
Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:01 pm
by kalinga
great !

use vi transport failed...

Posted:
Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:08 am
by delleray
unfortunately it didn't work
(am using acspamfilter instead of spamfilter
Feb 16 20:23:44 satwise-ac pipe[5641]: fatal: pipe_comand: execvp /usr/local/bin/acspamfilter: No such file or directory
but there is
> ls /usr/local/bin/spamfilter -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acspamfilter 511 74 Feb 16 20:00 /usr/local/bin/acspamfilter
and i changed master.cf
##rje##
##smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
-o content_filter=acspamfilter:dummy
##rje end##
....
##rje##
acspamfilter unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Rq user=acspamfilter argv=/usr/local/bin/acspamfilter -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}
##rjeend##
comments?...

Posted:
Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:56 am
by kalinga
try this
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chown acspamfilter:root /usr/local/bin/acspamfilter

Posted:
Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:31 pm
by delleray
will try when system quiet (never)
]but the filter is run as that user so that shouldn't matter surely?
d

Posted:
Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:44 pm
by kalinga
the user does matter, if not he cant reat the file. so you will get the error saying file not found.
New Update

Posted:
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:23 pm
by kalinga
Here's the UpdatedVer of the Script that will Quarantine SPAM email to a defrant email accout.
http://onetforum.com/fourm/viewtopic.php?p=63#63