On Thu, September 22, 2005 5:02 pm, Chris Schumann wrote:
> In what may not have been the smartest move of all time (influenced by
> me!), my company is using Cyrus-IMAPd as our IMAP server, and Sendmail as
> our SMTP server.
>
> It works very well, but we get a lot of spam and I'd like to get
> SpamAssassin working well too. Since the user's don't have login accounts,
> a .procmailrc file cannot be created for each user.
>
> I would appreciate any tips on where to look for information on how to
> configure such a setup. We're using Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 for the moment.
> Hopefully switching to 4.0 soon. The default configuration files don't
> seem to do anything worthwhile.
>
> Many thanks,
> Chris
>
Well, you're probably not gonna like this but -

What you really should do is just set up spamassassin to run directly
under sendmail, and have it spam-mark the mail.

Personally I like to use Mimedefang - it's a milter that runs under
sendmail and will run spamassassin as well as any of a number of virus
filters.  It's very flexible and pretty fast (I run it on a mail server
with 6000 users and it holds up pretty well.

THere are a number of other such beasts available - if you just want to
run spamassassin you could install spamass-milter, which will just put
spam markings into your email.

Then your users can set up filters on the IMAP server to do something
useful with the markings - put the mail into the Spam filter, or throw it
away if the score is really high (though I never do that myself).

I believe there is some info on the spamassassin site on how to set up a
site-wide spamassassin implementation.   I'd look at Mimedefang if you
want a lot of power, and at spamass-milter if you just want something
simpler.

I'll see if I can dig up a couple of better pointers in the morning
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