Sendmail and spamassassin

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:05 PM +0200 Edwin Dicker <edwin at dicker.nl> 
wrote:

> What do I have to tell sendmail to let spamd
> process the incoming mail ?

Two methods:

You can install a "milter" to invoke spamassassin from sendmail. Several 
are available, although I don't believe any ship in Fedora. I use 
MIMEDefang (http://mimedefang.org/).

You can invoke spamc (the client for spamd) from /etc/procmailrc. For 
example, put this in that file:

# -- top of example --
# this is needed to let spamc tell spamd what user's config to use
# and to insure Sanitizer is run as regular user to limit possible damage
DROPPRIVS=YES

# first run spamassassin if message is small enough
:0fw
* < 200000
| /usr/bin/spamc
# -- end of example --