Topic: sme-spamassassin.tgz

[Daley]

Hi All,

Just to find out, has anyone install the http://www.star-support.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/spamassasin/5.6/sme-spamassassin.tgz on SME 5.5U2.

Thank you.

Daley

[Brian Read]

yes, there is thread on the dev forum about it.

You need to use --nodeps to get the RPMs to install,

and the server-manager panel is broken.

There is some investigations going on, but slowly!!

cheers


Brian

[Daley]

is it the same comment on SME 5.6 server?

Thank you.

Daley

[Tony P.]

I had no issue installing this on SME 5.6. The server-manager panel works fine and I did not have an issue with installing the RPMs.

Tony P.

[Steve]

I have installed this package on V5.6 without any problems and set it up in server manager, but for some reason it is not stopping any spam. Is there anything else I need to do to get it working?.

[Ed Form]

Steve wrote:
>
> I have installed this package on V5.6 without any problems
> and set it up in server manager, but for some reason it is
> not stopping any spam. Is there anything else I need to do to
> get it working?.

*Subject:* RE: [e-smith-devinfo] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Spamassassin contrib BETA
*From:* ed.form@ntlworld.com (Ed Form)
*To:* dan@jeepshop.com
*CC:* ed.form@ntlworld.com

In article <000c01c2cc61$54ec1fd0$7d01a8c0@hog1>, dan@jeepshop.com (Dan
Turner) wrote:

> I am finding the same behavior, it is allowing blacklist through without
> delay.
> Have looked for logs to see if it is doing anything at all, can't seem
> to locate it either.

Download the user-manager from here:

   http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/user-manager/

and install it with...

                rpm -Uvh e-smith-userpanel-pkg-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm

Then log onto your Server manager and you will find a couple of new items in the menu. Under 'Security' at the top of the menu will be 'User Panel Access'. Choose this and a new window will open with a list of all your users and the ability
to allow them access to a control panel of their own. When you click a
user name, or the global entry which allows all users the access you
chose, you will get a new window with a long list of items to be included
in the user control panel. About three-quarters of the way down the list
is the item 'userpanel-procmail'. put a tick in its box and save the
result with the 'modify' button at the bottom.

Now change the address at the top of the browser window to...

    https://domain.com/user-manager
 
Where domain.com is your server's domain name or, as I did, use the IP
address of your server...

   https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/user-manager.

You will be asjked for a username and password and these should be the
name of one of your users and his logon password. Once you enter these you
will get to a cut down version of the server manager and one of the items
in the menu will be 'Forward Mail'. Choose this and you will get a
dialogue with a pull-down list that allows you to change from 'Deliver
mail locally' to 'Use procmail to deliver mail.' choose this and save.

If you've enabled SpamAssasin in its own control panel in the Server
manager it will now work!!!

Enjoy.

Ed Form

[thorsten greiner]

hi...

can anyone please send me sme-spamassassin.tgz? i cannot download it... always getting a connection timeout.

thanx in advance

thorsten

[joshua b]

Any recommendations as to which e-smith SpamAssassin Tar/gzip to use?  I've seen at least 2:

http://www.leiinc.com/repository/Linux/Mitel_SME_Server/Beta/Spamassassin/
and
http://www.star-support.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/spamassasin/5.6/

Both of them mention installing the user panel first.  I'm not sure about any others.

Thanks,

Joshua

[joshua b]

Just an add on to my last question.

I assume the user panel mentioned is the one located at:
http://www.myezserver.com/ in  /contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/user-manager/.

Is there an easy way to know which are the latest contribs?

Thanks again,

Joshua

[thorsten greiner]

u need to follow the instructions found in the forum for installing the
user-panel which you can download on myezserver.com
i just downloaded the contribs there, don't know if those are the latest.
but i guess they are.

spamassassin works very good here

cheers, thorsten

[Cyrus Bharda]

Latest contribs usually can be found at contribs.org but only if the author has posted them there.

Cyrus Bharda

[jay]

Hi,

Where does the identified spam go to ? How do I know it's working ?

Cheers
Jay

[Ed Form]

jay wrote:

> Where does the identified spam go to ? How do I know it's
> working ?

In the Spam Assassin panel in the Server Manager is  a setting that allows you to simply mark the mail as spam but still allow it to get through. You need to do this for a little while as some wanted mail will get marked and will need to be whitelisted while some complete crap will fail to get marked and will need to be blacklisted. Once you have satisfied yourself that sorting is working properly you can change the setting 'Sort Spam to "junkmail" folder:' to 'yes' and you won't see it any more.

I'd recommend that you run with the 'high' sensitivity setting during these tests. On my server it never seems to wrongly call posts spam and it catches all but a very few rogue mails.

Once you've begun junking you'll need to set up a cron job to delete it from time to time or you'll fill your server up. The alternative, and much the better way is simply to leave the system set to mark spam and sort it all to the deleted items folder folder in your mail reader.

Ed Form

[Jay]

Fantastic! very pleased now all the crap is out of my sight!

Thanks for your help

[Jay]

one thing I forgot to ask;

does spamassasin have a mechanism to update its own rule base ? or will i have to watch for updates ?

[Ed Form]

Jay wrote:
>
> one thing I forgot to ask;
>
> does spamassasin have a mechanism to update its own rule base
> ? or will i have to watch for updates ?

Down at the bottom of the Server manager panel is a self-learning setting but I don't actually know whether it works. There is also a setting to have the system check with RBL lists on the internet. I'd imagine that these are kept well up to date.

Glad things are flying

Ed Form

[Brian Read]

The button at the bottom, refers to "auto-learning" which enables the training of the bayes database.  The bayes db will not "kick in" until a minimum of 200 spam and 200 ham have been seen.

Rules are an integral part of the package, so the whole package has to be updated to get any new rules.

When a new release is done, you can download the rh7.2 RPM from the spamassassin web site and install it on your SME server with no real problems.  I have done it a few times.

2.53 is the current latest version.

cheers


Brian

[Marcos Migliorini]

I want to know how to delete an entry defined in the wbl. In my server-panel I see "There are no WBL entries defined" but I already programed this black block list. In etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I can see this entry.... is possible to check the entries through the server panel?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Marcos

[Ed Form]

Marcos Migliorini wrote:
>
> I want to know how to delete an entry defined in the wbl. In
> my server-panel I see "There are no WBL entries defined" but
> I already programed this black block list. In
> etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I can see this entry.... is
> possible to check the entries through the server panel?

I've had several situations in which the Spamassassin control panel in Server Manager didn't seem to work correctly. The first one put itself right when I did SME5.6 update2. The last one was a red herring - when I went and looked at the control file it actually had a list bt it didn't show in the Server Manager panel. then I added another entry and up popped the lists. Been perfect ever since.

No idea what was wrong, just letting you know that the CP area is a bit hit and miss.

Ed Form

[Marcos Migliorini]

Ed,

Thanks for your respond. When you see in your server panel the BWL list, you have the posibility to delete an entry? , or you simply edit the local.cf file?

[Ed Form]

Marcos Migliorini wrote:
>
> Thanks for your respond. When you see in your server panel
> the BWL list, you have the posibility to delete an entry? ,
> or you simply edit the local.cf file?

The table has modify and remove buttons.

Ed Form

[Michiel]

To automatically update SpamAssassin, I'm testing the following concept: The latest version of SA can also be found on CPAN, so I run a weekly cronjob to check if there is a newer version. If so, it is automatically downloaded and installed. So far it seems to work, but the jury is still out.

The drawback is that it requires the development tools and CPAN to be configured on your system.

So this is what I did:
1/ Downloaded and installed the development tools from http://lordsfam.net/downloads/production/dev-tools/

2/ Installed ncftp from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ncftp-3.1.3-6.i386.rpm

3/ Configured CPAN (from the command line: perl -MCPAN -e shell and accepted all defaults).

4/ Put the following script in /etc/cron.weekly:
#!/bin/bash
sa-update() {
   echo o conf prerequisites_policy follow
   echo install Mail::SpamAssassin
   echo exit
}
sa-update | perl -MCPAN -e shell 2> /dev/null

That's all. Anyone care to comment?

Michiel

[Alejandro Lengua]

Does anyone know where to get...
Any sample -SPAM messages to try?

[Brian Read]

try here:

http://SpamAssassin.org/publiccorpus/

Cheers

Brian

[Darrell Lewis]

I've got spamassassin up and running, and I'd like to see which RBL's it's using - and I can't find where to sheck which RBL's are being used.

Where do I look?Brian  Read wrote:

[Brian Read]

Try

spamasssasin -D --lint

and it'll tell you (along with a lot of other stuff)

cheers

Brian