Re: Making Spamass-Milt respect virtusertable and aliases (fwd)

[Tony Shadwick]

FYI, this only works if the virtusertable in question in local, which in
my case it is not. :\  Better than nothing in this case IMHO.

I have a few machines that it would be useful, however.  I'd be inerested
in the patch and instructions for patching and re-compiling (if
needed...is it perl?)

Tony Shadwick
Manager of Internet Services
Strategic Technology Group
314-872-3000 x105

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Cassandra Lynette Brockett wrote:

> Using sendmail -bv should expand the virtusertable entries correctly.
>
> I currently have modified spamd on my system to provide the same
> functionality, and using sendmail -bv to do so, and that has been working
> well for about six months now.
>
> Oh, if anyone needs the patch for the short run (until Dan can get the
> milter functionality running), I'd be happy to provide the patch to spamd
> for you.  Of course, remember this is a source patch, so you would need to
> reapply the patch to every version of spamd that comes out... and the
> authors of spamassassin don't see the current functionality they have as a
> problem - so they won't be using my patch (I asked in case anyone is
> interested).
>
> Regards,
>     Cassandra
>
> PS - I guess it's time to update my copy of spamass-milter locally then... I
> need to give this new code tree a test - and see how it functions with my
> patch in spamd.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Nelson" <address@hidden>
> To: "Tony Shadwick" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Making Spamass-Milt respect virtusertable and aliases (fwd)
>
>
> > In the last episode (Aug 11), Tony Shadwick said:
> > > We have a mail host, @tseinc.com.  I create the user 'limited'.  Their
> > > e-mail address is now address@hidden
> > >
> > > On an external mail exchanger (not the same system) there is a
> > > virtusertable entry stating that  address@hidden is actually
> > > address@hidden
> > >
> > > Said user HATES spamassassin, and is demanding that it be taken off of
> > > his account.  Okay, so I go into his user_prefs and set his threshhold
> to
> > > 100.  His mail is still getting tagged as spam because spamassassin is
> > > looking for the user 'bob' to read his prefs, isn't finding that user,
> so
> > > it's using the global defaults instead of ever thinking to look at
> > > 'limited'.
> > >
> > > I have one workaround in mind, but it's a real kludge.  In my first
> > > example, it would be to create the user bob, symlink his ~/.spamassassin
> > > directory to limited's home, set a .forward in bob's home directory to
> > > address@hidden
> > >
> > > Okay, so wishful thinking is something that checks /etc(/mail)/aliases
> and
> > > /etc/mail/virtusertable and uses the correct user_prefs.  Is there a way
> I
> > > can manually set this up on a per-user basis so I don't have users
> wanting
> > > to rip my head off?
> >
> > I just started adding code to expand usernames;  if you want to see
> > whether it'll do what you want, try build the current CVS (or 0.2.0+cvs
> > tarball from teh website) and run with the -d rcpt flag.  It'll log
> > something like this for each recipient:
> >
> > Aug 11 17:05:34 gatekeeper spamass-milter[24972]: calling
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv "<address@hidden>"
> > Aug 11 17:05:34 gatekeeper spamass-milter[24972]: sendmail output:
> address@hidden deliverable: mailer esmtp, host dan.emsphone.com.,
> user address@hidden
> > Aug 11 17:05:34 gatekeeper spamass-milter[24972]: user:
> address@hidden
> > Aug 11 17:05:34 gatekeeper spamass-milter[24972]: Expanded to 1 recipients
> > Aug 11 17:05:34 gatekeeper spamass-milter[24972]: remembering recipient
> <address@hidden>
> >
> > Currently all it does it log.  The final code will call spamc with the
> > expanded username (the one on the third line in the above output), only
> > if it expanded to one recipient.  If it expands to more than one,
> > you'll get the "defaultuser" value just like if the mail was addressed
> > to two recipients originally.
> >
> > Let me know if it's logging correctly-expanded virtusertable users; I
> > don't have any so I have just been testing with /etc/aliases expansion.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Nelson
> > address@hidden
> >
> >
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