[sam] Fwd: [imp] SAM / spamassassin for filtering

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:

> I've been trying to play around with the SAM module.  I can configure it
> using
> SAM, and I can blacklist and whitelist addressess... but I'm having a
> hard time
> seeing where spamassassin is actually getting invoked.
> 
> I mean, I found SAM stanza in horde/conf/registry.php, and I uncommented
> the
> "provides" line...
> 
>     // Uncomment this line if you want Sam to handle the blacklist
>     // filter instead of IMP:
> 
>     'provides' => array('mail/blacklistFrom', 'mail/showBlacklist',
>         'mail/whitelistFrom', 'mail/showWhitelist'),
> 
> But as far as I can tell, spamassassin never gets called.  Should it get
> invoked
> when the filters are applied?  Does spamd need to be running?  Can it
> actually
> filter spam as well as do the blacklist / whitelist stuff?  I'm assuming
> that
> spamassassin lives on the webserver?

You have to integrate SpamAssassin with your local MTA. SAM is only a tool
to manage user preferences for SpamAssassin.
 
> I've got my database settings in local.cf, and truss shows that that file
> is
> getting accessed, but I haven't been able to confirm that the command
> line
> spamassassing utilities are using the SQL backend.

Neither did I. I finally gave up. That didn't matter to me because we are
only two users on my server anyway. :-)

Jan.

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