Qmail with spamassassin problem

Hello,

we run a Redhat 7.2 Server with Qmail and Vpopmail on. The system was
installed by a administrator who leff our company one year ago. The server
is working great since one year.

Because of lots of spam messages every day we decided to install
spamassassin on this system. So I installed spamassassin and started it.

I edit the local.cf and insert:
required_hits 6.0
rewrite_subject 1
report_header 1
use_terse_report 1
defang_mime 1
dns_available yes
dcc_add_header 1
use_dcc 1

Then I installed the qmail-scanner and made some changes to different script
files like "run".
I took the information from:
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/ho...ail.php#daemon
But I couldn't do any step because parts of the manual where already done.

Althought every service is running no email is checked by spamassassin. Its
like the system doesn't know that I installed spamassassin.

To get an idea of how it works I need information how spamassassin normaly
works together with qmail. How does the programms work together. Who ist
starting which script and where do I have to make the main changes?

The problem is that I don't know much about qmail and the configuration of a
redhat server. In our area we don't have much redhat administrators. The
most use Suse or debian. I tried to find somebody to coach us, but nobody
could help us because redhat is more than an american thing.

I would appriciate any help which helps me to understand how the different
scripts and binaryies work together.

Ciao
Heiko

"Heiko Hilscher \(linkshaender.de\)" <heiko_hilscher@firemail.de> writes:

> Then I installed the qmail-scanner and made some changes to different script
> files like "run".
> I took the information from:
> http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/ho...ail.php#daemon
> But I couldn't do any step because parts of the manual where already done.

So you built and installed qmail-scanner, but you didn't configure
qmail to use it?

> To get an idea of how it works I need information how spamassassin normaly
> works together with qmail. How does the programms work together. Who ist
> starting which script and where do I have to make the main changes?

Normally qmail-scanner is invoked by qmail-smtpd using the QMAILQUEUE
environment variable, which is set to something like
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue in /etc/tcp.smtp (or equivalent).
The details depend upon how your qmail was installed originally and
how qmail-scanner was installed. This requires that your qmail be
patched with the QMAILQUEUE patch. You can verify that this patch is
installed by doing:

$ strings /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd | grep QMAILQUEUE
QMAILQUEUE
$

> The problem is that I don't know much about qmail and the configuration of a
> redhat server.

For qmail, see "Life with qmail". The URL is in my sig. RH
configuration is fairly irrelevant since qmail+daemontools+ucspi-tcp
doesn't rely much on OS configuration.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.