Quoting Jim Flanagan <linuxjim@jjfiii.com>:
Hi all,
Can someone point me to a guide for how to set up postfix using spamassassin? I have postfix running (default suse) but never got around to setting up spamassassin. Do I need to use procmail with this setup? So far I have postfix running, accessing it with kmail and squirrelmail thru uw-imap. I'm running suse 8.2 with KDE 3.2.3
Many thanks,
If you also want to run a virus-scanner (or maybe even if you don't) look into amavis-new. It is glue logic between Postfix (and other MTAs) and virus-scanners, Spam Assassin, etc. Amavis-new calls Spam Assassin directly as a library, so Perl startup costs are only paid once instead of every e-mail. You can use Maildrop as well as Procmail. Maildrop's configuration file is much more readable, IMHO. AFAIK, you can run Spam Assassin from the .forward file if you don't need a fancy MDA like Procmail or Maildrop. HTH, Jeffrey