Comments on: OS X Tiger Server: Improving SpamAssassin

By: Seth Dillingham

Seth Dillingham — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:09:43 +0000

Greg, you said to do this:

sudo rm -rf /var/clamav/.spamassassin sudo ln -s /var/clamav/.spamassassin /var/amavis/.spamassassin

That doesn’t actually work… it deletes /var/clamav/.spamassassin, and
then tries to create a link to it at
/var/amavis/.spamassassin/.spamassassin !

I think you meant this:

sudo rm -rf /var/clamav/.spamassassin sudo ln -s /var/amavis/.spamassassin /var/clamav/.spamassassin

The first param to ln is the "original" or existing file, the
second parameter (optional) is the destination location.

Seth

By: Harold Miller

Harold Miller — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:24:47 +0000

Thanks for the help in decreasing the SPAM in my users INBOX. I do have another question; part of the RAZOR2 setup included creating a user:
Razor v2 requires reporters to be registered so their reputations can
be computed over time and they can participate in the revocation
mechanism. Registration is done with razor-admin -register.

Is this required? Which ‘User’ should I be when I register (root is specificaly not allowed)? Where / How do I use the Identity file that is created?

Thanks!!
Harold Miller

By: Greg Pierce

Greg Pierce — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:12:15 +0000

On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Seth Dillingham wrote:

> And I thought that having SpamAssassin built in was going to prevent
> that problem. This really annoys me.

I honestly haven’t tested it to find out, having managed a Panther
server, I’m a bit hesitant to test it. On the bright side, I don’t
think there’s a lot that you could hose too bad now, because there
are no mods required to the Postfix config files for this sort of stuff.

I expect the SpamAssassin config gets left pretty well alone as well,
as there’s nothing in the way they system works that would be changed
there. I think it’s mainly the Amavisd.conf file that might get
stomped on. I suppose I should test that and see what happens.

greg.

By: Seth Dillingham

Seth Dillingham — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:01:15 +0000

On 1/25/06, Greg Pierce said:

>Be careful what you change in ServerAdmin, or your mods may get
>written over.

And I thought that having SpamAssassin built in was going to prevent
that problem. This really annoys me.

Thanks for the write-up, though. It’ll help with my client who’s been
waiting (for ages) to upgrade to Tiger Server.

Seth