On 6/15/06 3:38 PM, "Ed Pastore" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 7:15 PM, David Haines wrote:
>
>> If you haven't already, I'd suggest putting in place the fix first
>> noted
>> here:
>> http://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=26&showtopic=11170
>>
>> "(stop) mail, (move) /var/amavis/.spamassassin aside and replaced
>> it with a
>> symlink to /var/clamav/.spamassassin"
>
> Thanks for the help, David. From there, I ended up on these pages:
> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2280532
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SpamAssassin_on_Mac_OS_X_Server
> (note that the latter one contains an incorrect (reversed) iteration
> of the symbolic link)
>
> Apparently everyone agrees that Apple's SA implementation is either
> messed up or deliberately hobbled.
>
> I ended up creating the symbolic link as described in several places:
> sudo -s
> cd /var/amavis
> mv .spamassassin .spamassassin.old
> su clamav
> ln -s /var/clamav/.spamassassin /var/amavis/.spamassassin
>
> ...then fixing the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file:
>> change 'auto_learn' to 'bayes_auto_learn'
>> change 'safe_reporting' to 'report_safe'
>> comment out 'use_terse_report 0'
>> comment out 'subject_tag' and 'rewrite_subject'
> (note that it is "report_safe" and not "safe_report" as indicated in
> some places)
>
> ...then setting up the junkmail and notjunkmail accounts as Apple
> recommends
>
> ...then using spamtrainer <http://osx.topicdesk.com/downloads/> for
> the actual scanning instead of either of Apple's scripts (strangely,
> hardly anyone even talks about sa-learn).
>
> Now, after scanning 200+ spams and 200+ non-spams (which takes quite
> a long time with spamtrainer), Bayesian scanning appears to be
> working. I can tell because the X-Spam-Status tag in my mail headers
> now contains a BAYES tag:
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.33 tagged_above=-999 required=5
> tests=BAYES_50, HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2, HTML_40_50, HTML_MESSAGE,
> MIME_HTML_ONLY
>
> That was NOT trivial (considering that this is supposed to already be
> a feature of Tiger). The discussion in the afp548 thread starts on
> 10.4.2. This misconfiguration (deliberate hobbling?) persists in
> 10.4.6. wtf?
>
> Anyway, thanks!
The configuration created by Server Admin both for Postfix and amavis (which
calls SpamAssassin), are functional but basic. Barring the bug noted above
which still seems to linger.
I consider it a launching point of sorts, but about all I use Server Admin
for anymore (after some initial configuration at first setup) is getting a
quick overview of things. Hey, sometimes I'll "go wild" and use it to stop
AFP, but in general I stop/start services via the Terminal/"command-line"
since I'm there already.
I'm not using Razor or pyzor for that matter, as there's little need in my
case.
As for that Apple Discussions thread, with no disrespect meant to the
author, there's (as you've found) a few typos or inaccuracies, and - apart
from a handful or so of knowledgeable posters - the Discussions is a
dangerous mix of unrealistic expectations mashed up with lack of experience
and/or willingness to learn; a fair amount of fixitforme-seeking, expecting
or even demanding; ranting and large amounts of silliness amidst the few
well-informed replies.
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