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

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 15), Tony Shadwick said:
> A coule more irons for the fire on the sendmail -bv front.
> 
> One is that I'm working on hacking spamd to fit my purposes.  I've 
> tried Cassandra's patch, which essentially catches the userid, runs 
> sendmail -bv on it, then passes along the new one if it's different, 
> or the same on if it is not.
> 
> Example output:
> 
> [erwin:~] numbski% sendmail -bv tony
> Notice: -bv may give misleading output for non-privileged user
> numbski... deliverable: mailer local, user numbski
> [erwin:~] numbski% sendmail -bv karen
> Notice: -bv may give misleading output for non-privileged user
> baroque... deliverable: mailer local, user baroque
> [erwin:~] numbski% sendmail -bv nathan
> Notice: -bv may give misleading output for non-privileged user
> sysiphus... deliverable: mailer local, user sysiphus
> 
> Now, for a touch of irony, one of my problems is that the virtusertable 
> isn't local, so through the magic of ssh, i tried this:

Can you run the milter on the same machine your virtusertable is on?

I don't remember if you ever posted a description of your mail routing 
paths, but I guess it's something like:

 (____Internet____)
         |
      +------+
      |      |
.. [MX 1]  [MX 2]      Sendmail and milters run here
:     |      |
:     +------+
:        |
:    [Mailserver]      Just sendmail
: 
:... [Spamdserver]     Runs spamd, possibly also houses
                       SQL database for user prefs

You should be able to move spamass-milter down to the Mailserver 
machine by building it on Mailserver, starting it with "-p inet:2525", 
then putting this in your MXes sendmail.mc:

INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin',`S=inet:address@hidden,etc etc')

So spamass-milter, since it's running on Mailserver, can see the 
correct virtusertable.  A lot less overhead than an ssh session.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
        address@hidden