Upgrades^3
02 Nov 2005Upgrading SpamAssassin at work; we're using 2.63, and they're up to, what, 3.1.0 now? The upgrade itself was relatively painless, but for complicated reasons it was integrated with Mimedefang, and I didn't like that. MDF is great, but:
- It takes out the SA score header. This can be corrected, but
- it turns the SA score into a number, rather than a series of asterisks, which makes it difficult to filter with a regex, or with Outlook. (I have SA set conservatively, but the header makes it easy to filter more aggressively if that's what you want.
- Finally, MDF puts the SA report into the message as an attachment. Admittedly, it's a plain-text attachment, but that doesn't console the Outlook users who are worried (and rightly so) about clicking on attachments.
Hm. Will have to figure out a way around that; maybe just run spamc/spamd like I currently do.
I've also got word that, due to some old prototype equipment no longer being needed, I will have three new boxes to play with. Woohoo! I'm already planning the DRBD fileserver.
Finally, I managed to get the new version of uClinux to compile and run on the NWR04B. Sweet...except that I didn't check out a particular tag, and I'm having to guess at the date when I did check out my tree, which makes it difficult to say exactly what I've got. Currently checking out with the date set to when I think I grabbed it, then may upgrade/downgrade to the latest tag (currently 2.4.31).
4 Comments
From: Royce
20-November-2005-23:12:39
IIRC, all of the MD features that you're describing are configurable so that they match the behavior that you prefer. I didn't like any of those things, either. :) I think that they are set in the MD-specific SA settings file sa-mimedefang.cf (or whatever it's called now).
-royce
From: Saint Aardvark
21-November-2005-06:43:07
Thanks for the tip -- I suspect I was looking in the wrong config file. The as-an-attachment thing really bugs me, and I need to track that down.
From: Royce
23-November-2005-11:16:55
Here it is:
$ grep -C4 report_header /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/sa-mimedefang.cf
# By default, spamassassin will include its report in the body
# of suspected spam. Enabling this causes the report to go in the
# headers instead. Using 'use_terse_report' for this is recommended.
#
# report_header 1
report_header 1
# By default, SpamAssassin uses a fairly long report format.
# Enabling this uses a shorter format which includes all the
# information in the normal one, but without the superfluous
From: Saint Aardvark
25-November-2005-07:09:34
Coolness...many thanks!
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