> Mike Burger wrote: >>> Hey list, >>> >>> I'm using sendmail to handle all my incoming and outgoing email and now >>> I've ran into a problem related to spamassassin. >>> Because spamassassin also checks outgoing mail, sending outgoing mails >>> always takes about 3-4 seconds. >>> Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but my boss wants to send a >>> newsletter every month to quite a number of users, and this is undoable >>> if it takes 3-4 seconds per email. >>> >>> I've tested it without spamassassin and it only took like 0.3-0.5 >>> seconds, which is doable. >>> >>> Another solution to my problem is ok as well, as long as the send-time >>> gets decreased to around <0.5 seconds. >>> >> >> It all revolves around how you've implemented SA. While it is possible >> to >> use it in a milter style fashion, the more common way is to run spamd, >> and >> call spamc from procmail, at delivery time. >> >> Noting that if your local PCs have been compromised, and are now part of >> a >> botnet, they're not going to send their spam out through your mail >> server, >> anyhow, it might be simpler to run via procmail at delivery, and bypass >> scanning outbound mail. >> >> > I know my way around in Linux but how mail is dealt with internally, I > have no clue whatsoever. > I've added the following line to the configuration of sendmail, so that > it works with spamassassin: > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, > F=,T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') > > Apart from that, spamass-milter is running with the following command: > spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass.sock -f -b spam@xxxxxxxx > > And spamd is ran like this: > /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -s local6 -u spam > > Maybe an easier way is to change the sendmail command PHP uses, since > the script that sends out all the emails makes use of PHP. > It would be enough for me to change the PHP standard sendmail command to > bypass spamassassin. > Hope this sheds some more light on my situation. Well, you folks are using it via milter...unless there's a way to bypass the milter for outbound mail, or you move away from the milter for spamassassin, I can't think of a way around your situation. Sorry. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
