On 2009-12-16, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > I know postfix fairly well, well enough to know how much of a P.I.T.A. > integrating SpamAssassin with it is.
It's not too bad with MailScanner (in ports). Or if you're running procmail you can just pipe the message through the filter at delivery time before you sort into folders; see the SpamAssassin manual. > The documentation on spamd(8) tells me that it integrates tightly with > pf(4), in such a way that it does NOT take over port 25 locally, it > merely seems that way to certain outside senders... right? It appears > that spamd(8) never proxies a connection onward to localhost:25, because > that has already been decided at the pf(4) layer, i.e. spamd by > definition never actually processes any mail in any way whatsoever? Correct. Once the sender has got through the suitable number of retries, their address is added to a PF table which is used to exempt them from being redirected. > The documentation on smtpd(8) tells me that is replaces sendmail(8). > Period. The documentation for smtpd(8) does not explain in detail how > to configure /etc/mailer.conf for complete replacement of sendmail. If you're using smtpd, you should be running -current, where the manual explains how to do this.
