Re: [vps-mail] Spamassassin with Mailman on VPS1

[Abigail Marshall <abigailrm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/21/05, Bennett Lanford <benlanford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> I've probably lost you. To summarize: The technique described above
> will definitely accomplish what you want, but it is scary to
> implement. (Good luck!)

Yeah, I figured out the "scary" part from Scott's post -- way too
intimidating for my needs. I'm seeing maybe 5 spams a day in the queue
and it is getting annoying deleting them - but not so bad that I'm
ready to tackle all the steps laid out in the technoids article.

I tried installing the scripts at
http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ but they don't
seem to work-- at least they haven't worked to slow down the spam. 
Remember this is on a VPS1 - so we have that age-old problem that
out-of-the-box scripts sometimes don't work because the paths aren't
set correctly for the virtual environment. (I don't know if that's the
issue - it's just my guess).

It also occured to me to merely pipe the alias through spamassassin
via a spamc command in aliases file -- but that didn't seem to work
for me either. (I sent a test mail with enough spammy words in it to
at least get tagged - and my messages log showed that it didn't go
anywhere -- so something in my pipe command killed it rather than
delivering.

-Abigail

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