Properly managing SpamAssassin. . .

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:05:25 -0400
Michael Williams <gberz3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to properly manage SpamAssassin after Plesk has  
> wreaked havoc on the server. 

Hi Michael,
i think this thread doesnt belong in stable@, but questions@ - i dont see how this refers to one particular version of freebsd in particular.


 > 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?

Caveat : I only suffer plesk in Linux, but the issues are very similar.

I dont know of any way to bypass the licensing limitations... i strongly suggest if you walked into those you simply get rid of plesk now.

I am not sure for SA, but there is a version of qscan that supports passing the email to Clamav:

http://www.hostbird.com/beta/index.php?loc=0602-0602

Maybe there is something out there to support SA? Or simply configure qmail to support SA - you wont get an interface to manage SA from plesk, but you aren't missing much, IMHO - most of our users dont care about custom spam/ham , but rely on the system wide bayes list.

(qmail is another reason to move away from plesk, imho... :( )

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