Hello all,

I am quickly getting to the hair-pulling stage because I cannot accomplish the
simple setup of qmail and spamassassin. There is lots of docs out there, but
they all suggest completely different ways of doing things.

Here's what I have:
netqmail-1.05-r8
dovecot-1.0.13-r1
spamassassin-3.2.1-r1

These are all installed, and presumably working fine. That is: qmail is
accepting and delivering mail, spamd starts and runs with no errors, and I am
able to log in and get my mail using Dovecot and IMAP.

What I am trying to accomplish:

I just want qmail to run all incoming mail through spamassassin and add X-Spam
header for all spam it finds before it is delivered locally. With this I
shall be able to use .dovecot.sieve to place it in a spam folder for quick
review and deletion.

Here's a few attempts I have made to integrate spamassassin, and the results:

Attempt 1 (Docs: [0]):
* emerge 'safecat' to get 'maildir' binary.
* Put "| spamassassin -P | maildir ./Maildir/"
in "/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery"

Result:
* mail is still delivered, but is not processed by spamassassin.
* It is my understanding that "X-Spam-Status" header should be added even if
the mail is not identified as spam.

Problems:
* Reading spamassassin docs leads me to believe that there is no "-P" option,
and that I should really be using 'spamc'. I tried replacing spamassassin
with spamc in "/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery". No effect.

Attempt 2 (Docs: [1]):

* emerge 'mess822' (required by ifspamh)
* emerge 'ksh' (ifspamh is ksh script)
* Place 'ifspamh' in /usr/local/bin
* setup .qmail and .qmail-spam as per docs

Result:
* No mail delivery at all. No obvious errors in any logs, mail just dries up.

Attempt 3 (Docs: [2]):

* emerge 'qmail-scanner'

Result:
* emerge hangs forever while searching for plugins to add to
qmail-scanner-queue.pl. Some testing shows that the process is using no
resources, so: it's hanging doing nothing?!?

Problems:
* 'clamav' (a dependancy of qmail-scanner) emerge failed with something about
a gcc bug, and suggested I use a different compiler. I switched
to 'i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6' from 'i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1' and it compiles.
* Cannot get qmail-scanner to compile at all.
* Dead-end.

There is another method I have found, using simscan [3] but it seems to
require yet another third-party binary , and a patch to qmail, so I am not
really interested in trying, especially with all the failed attempts so far.

Conclusion:

Spamassassin and Qmail hate me.

Does anyone on this list have spamassassin integrated with qmail at the MTA
level? I would be very interested in which method you used, and your configs.

Is there something else I am missing?

Any other info you need please just ask.

[0] http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInQmailWithIfspamh
[2] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInQmailWithQmailScanner

Thanks,
-d
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