Mailing List Archive: Setting up SA via qmail

Is the qmail patch hard to do? I am really new at this

I have SA set but told I need to add the patch
I have Bruce Guenter's qmail patch file and saved it
as txt (how does this type of patch get installed)

I also downloaded the
qmail-1.03+patches-19.src.rpm

any rh9 how to would help a great deal!

Once I get this installed sa should start working
right? can't wait

Any help is very much appreciated

Please bare with me I know to some this may seem so
simple but to me this is very confusing I have been at
this for days, I never really had to deal with the
mail system I mostly used control panels for that.

OS rh9
Ed

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail.
http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ebk [mailto:aaebd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Setting up SA via qmail
>
>
> Is the qmail patch hard to do? I am really new at this
> [...]

Step-by-step instructions here:
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_qmail_spamassassin.php
(Google is your friend)

You should be able to start with the
'With qmail-scanner'
Section if everything is working OK up to this point. (if
'/etc/init.d/spamassassin start' doesn't work, start over at the
beginning of the web page). Just make sure you _read_ and _understand_
what you are doing.

>
> Once I get this installed sa should start working
> right? can't wait

The short answer is yes, BUT you should still take some time to educate
yourself about how SpamAssassin works. You are assuming that everything
is just going to "work" but SpamAssassin is made to fit into several
different scenarios for scanning. The one you are trying to set up
works like this:

Mail flow:
Qmail-smtpd -> Qmail-Scanner -> SpamAssassin

If you don't understand what Qmail-Scanner wants from SpamAssassin, you
won't be able to get Qmail-Scanner setup properly, and then the system
won't work.

Read about SpamAssassin. Read about Qmail-Scanner (especially the FAQ).
Don't just skim.

Todd