Topic: multi-drop with spamassassin

[tariqf]

I have a number of SME 7.0 servers  and I cannot get any of them to filter spam while using multi-drop email i.e. using fetchmail to pull emails from a pop3 server.

If I turn off multi-drop and have my server receive emails directly then the spam filtering works.

Please can someone confirm if this is normal or if it is a bug?

[firstbishop]

We had a similar problem with our 6.5 server, but after a fresh install of 7.0 mail is being delivered fine using multidrop and the built-in spam filtering is working (ie I haven't installed any additional spam contribs, but am using the system default). Good luck with finding the problem!

Mike

[compdoc]

Unfortunately, DNSBL does not work with multi-drop, since the SME server isnt involved in the original incoming smtp connection, and is not able to see the IP address of the sending mail server. (hope that makes sense)

However, RHSBL does still work since it uses the domain name rather than the IP address. There arent as many RHSBL servers, but one you can add is rhsbl.sorbs.net. Search Google for others...

DCC works too, although you have to enable it by editing /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre, by removing the '#' in front of the line for the plugin, then restart the services...

You can also enable Bayes Filtering, but that requires that the users train bayes by sorting the good and bad mail to different folders - something that might be too much work for some.

All of these checks add a little to the overall score assigned to incoming mail, but even without the services mentioned above, Spamassassin still does a decent job of catching spam.

[Curly]

I just upgraded to 7.1 and sort of 'broke' the scanning by spamassassin of all the mails that are retreived by fetchmail. All other mails are scanned just fine, in the mails that are retreived by fetchmail none of the usual spamassassin headers appear, no logging is done by spamd. Other mails that are generated at the server itself get scanned, so it must be something in the way that fetchmail inserts the messages into the mail at the server. Anyone else having problems or is it just me ?

[CharlieBrady]

I just upgraded to 7.1 and sort of 'broke' the scanning by spamassassin of all the mails that are retreived by fetchmail.

Please report all problems via the Bug Tracker. Thanks.

[Curly]

Ok, reported bug 2223.

Thanks !