Re: I want to optimize for mailinglists.

[Steven W. Orr]

Dan, thanks for responding. I still have more questions, but first I have 
a small bug I need to point out in the code that needs fixing:

spamass-milter is not properly daemonizing itself. Under Red Hat 9 I run 
ps -auxfw and what I see is this:

root     22714  0.0  0.0 52624  692 pts/2    S    Sep05   0:03 \
/usr/local/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass.sock -f -u user

Note that the process still has control of pts/2. The Red Hat startup 
script calls daemonize, but that's probably a misnomer. You need to close 
all of your channels, then call setsid, do the double fork (which I 
suspect you're probably already doing), set your signal handlers to 
something appropriate, etc. If it's done correctly, the ps command will 
show a nice juicy questionmark on the TTY setting of the ps output.

On Saturday, Sep 6th 2003 at 10:27 -0500, quoth Dan Nelson:

=>In the last episode (Sep 05), Steven W. Orr said:
=>> Here's my setup. I just installed spamass-milt-0.2.0+cvs and it seems
=>> to be ok. I have three questions.
=>> 
=>> The first one is easy.
=>> 
[snip] Good answer. Thanks.
=> 
=>> 2. mailinglists. This one is harder. I run a majordomo list manager. 
=>> Before I switched to using the milter, none of the mail that came in
=>> addressed to a list address went through SA. That's because there is
=>> no user associated a list address, thus nobody to deliver to, thus no
=>> procmail processing. Now that I'm in a milter environment I just
=>> don't know where I stand. Is there a way to tell the system that I
=>> want all mail that is addressed to a list address that it should use
=>> my account as the default user? What processing is used in the first
=>> place. I'm confused.
=>
=>One possible way to add spamassassin to majordomo without using a
=>milter would be to edit your redirection alias to read "|spamc |
=>/home/majordomo/wrapper etc etc", and add X-Spam-Flag: to your taboo
=>headers list.  With a milter, you don't have to edit the alias since
=>all mail gets filtered.

But first I need to understand where I stand. Does the setup now still not 
do anything or is there some sort of default processing going on? BTW, I 
like the idea of using the enhancement to the alias, but I'd prefer to 
make SA or the milter do it in the first place.

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