Topic: Question: ASSP & 6.5RC1

[edhamlin]

Has anyone experience, good or bad, getting ASSP to work in 6.5? I am having such problems with spamassassin that I thought I might try an alternative spam filter.

Regards,
Ed

[romst]

ASSP - AntiSpamSMTPProxy, cross-platform, os-independed program (daemon). You may run it by tcpserver and it worked fine as on SME 6.0.1. It's only perl script. Problems maybe in case putting it in chroot environment.

[edhamlin]

Pree-vyet!

I was unable to get ASSP to work. I had a good install and was able to configure it as recommended in the "How-To". However, it did not appear to be intercepting the mail and filtering it. Same problem as Spamassassin: spam was being delivered and there was no sign of it having been checked by the filter.

The only thing I can think of is I am using dungog-email and dungog-pop, which goes out and receives mail from an external server. Perhaps these rpms are interfering with smtpfront-qmail somehow. I will investigate further and if I learn anything, I'll report it.

Rgds
Ed

[gordonr]

However, it did not appear to be intercepting the mail and filtering it. Same problem as Spamassassin: spam was being delivered and there was no sign of it having been checked by the filter.

You might like to give 7.0alpha a go. It has a recent SpamAssassin with extra goodies and ClamAV integrated.

Gordon

[romst]

look at /etc/services, port 125 goes to smtp, 25 port - blank.
what in netstat -ptln?
port 25 listening perl?
cat /service/assp/run:
 #!/bin/sh
 exec 2>&1 >/dev/nul
 exec /usr/local/assp/assp.pl /usr/local/assp

if You have secondary mx, maybe lot of spam from there?
RBL checkers working, or not?

[edhamlin]

I was able to get ASSP to work.

I think I found the problem, and it applies to both ASSP and SA.

Something in 6.5RC1 changed the way the fetchmail process works in dungog-multipop, and my external email was not getting filtered by either SA or ASSP. Mail to the local domain was. I disabled multipop and set my external email to forward to one of my local domains, which appears to the spamfilter as an external message coming into the local mail server. Thus the handoff between ASSP and amavis-ng worked.

I am discussing this with Stephen Noble, but I don't know if he intends to change anything in multipop to fix this, or if this is some unusual phenomenon related to the configuration of my server.

I would like to get SA working as I like the RBLS features and the algorithms a bit better than ASSP. But I also need to fetch mail from multiple external mailboxes and like the local control that is provided by multipop.

Thanks for the advice and assistance -- I will keep everyone posted on any progress that is made on this issue.

Rgds
Ed