Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

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On 08/22/2010 02:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 08/20/2010 09:39 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> It looks like sa-milt is getting a-hold of the message first, and
>> marking it as [SPAM] with a score of 6.2.  Then it looks like its
>> getting run again????
> 
> Yeah, I'm not terribly sure.  Honestly, I haven't run Sendmail on a mail 
> server in close to a decade.  I use Courier and pythonfilter (actually, 
> I wrote pythonfilter) these days.  After looking through this milter 
> stuff, I'm really glad that I do.  Courier and pythonfilter are far simpler.

I've been using sendmail since long before there was milter support for
it.  Once in a while it drives me nuts, but, its familiar to me.
OTOH, configuring these milters correctly is like shooting in the dark.  B^)

> I installed the spamass-milter package from EPEL, assuming that's what 
> you use, to look at it more closely.  As far as I can tell, the milter 
> is running before Sendmail adds its Received: header, which means that 
> you can't use whitelist_from_rcvd (or at least, that it's not effective 
> early on).  Furthermore, I'm not sure if spamc is being run a second 
> time because the milter is called again after alias expansion, or if 
> you're simply calling spamc from your procmailrc.

Hmmm, yes, /etc/procmailrc runs it through spamc ....

> spamass-milter has an option to exclude IP ranges from filtering. 
> You'll probably want to configure that *in addition to* the rules you've 
> already set up.  You should be adding those options in 
> /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter.

OK, I'll play with the -i flag a bit.   Thanks.

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