Re: spamass-milter integration with Third Party MTA

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 16), Spirovski Bozhidar said:
> I am working on integrating our Mail server with spamassassin. Our
> MTA is ISOCOR (Critical Path) Messaging Server. The MTA does not
> support spamassassin integration out of the box, but it is documented
> that it supports Activestate PerlMX (Now known as Sophos Pure
> Message). The documentation that I read on that product is that it
> was initially designed for sendmail, and uses it's milter interface,
> which gives me a lot of hope that I can achieve the same with
> spamass-milter and spamassassin.
>  
> I downloaded spamass-milter 0.2.0 rpm and installed it on my RHEL
> 3.0. I also installed spamassassin on the same machine. Then I
> modified the spamass-milter startup script: I changed the SOCKET
> variable into this: SOCKET=inet:3366
>  
> Upon starting the spamass-milter, it creates a TCP socket on port
> 3366 (port that was originally designated by PerlMX)
>  
> However, after this, I don't have a clue whether anything happens,
> and whether spamass-milter connects to the spamassassin, and even
> more, whether the MTA even attempts to connect to it.
>  
> Is there a way to test and debug the activity of the spamass-milter?

Sure.  You can add debugging flags with the -d commandline argument. 
"-d misc"  will add one or two lines per incoming message to
/var/log/maillog.  See the manpage for a list of all the flags.

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        Dan Nelson
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