Properly managing SpamAssassin. . .

Michael Williams gberz3 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 15:38:40 UTC 2007


Kevin,

Thanks.  I have no problem with that at all.  Can you recommend any  
quality, modular (redundant I know) jailing techniques (e.g.  
directory structures, user levels, permissions, etc)?


Regards,
Michael

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Kevin K. wrote:

> Managing plesk usually means that you really have to hand over your  
> server
> (or the jail that plesk creates) to plesk itself.
>
> I've hacked and mangled plesk installations in order to merge other
> technologies and custom solutions that I personally preferred --  
> and in the
> end I concluded that it caused more headaches than it was worth.
>
> As of plesk 8.1 I believe it creates its installation in a jailed
> environment, so perhaps adding another jail to handle all the  
> services you
> don't want to purchase through plesk (i.e. spamassassin, clamav, or  
> whatever
> elese there is) may be the best way.
>
> That's my 0.2, perhaps someone else has a better solution though.  
> Again,
> changing or hacking a plesk installation is not a good idea,  
> considering
> their "windows update" style of submitting upgrades and patches.
>
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael  
> Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Properly managing SpamAssassin. . .
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a way to properly manage SpamAssassin after Plesk has
> wreaked havoc on the server.  In the short term, we need to keep
> Plesk around for those that need the "ease of use".  However, it
> wants to keep resetting values, etc; meaning that since the Plesk
> license doesn't support "SpamAssassin" it won't allow us to use it
> and wants it to remain that way.  If push comes to shove, I *will*
> blast Plesk.  That said, I need to figure out the proper way to
> enable SpamAssassin and have Qscan work properly, circumventing the
> Plesk activites and licensing limitations.  Does anyone have any
> quality insight into the most up-to-date means for accomplishing this?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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