Amavisd/clamav/spamassassin from the host OS

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at pardus.de
Wed Feb 27 09:11:54 CET 2008


Luca Fornasari <luca at furna.com> writes:

> Hi Gunnar,
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Amavisd/clamav/spamassassin from the host OS
> From: Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>
> To: Luca Fornasari <luca at furna.com>
> CC: Kolab Users <kolab-users at kolab.org>
> Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 16:14:38 GMT+0800 (HKT)
>> Hi Luca,
>>
>> Luca Fornasari <luca at furna.com> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently running kolab 2.1.0 installed using openpkg.
>>>
>>> Is there any contraindications or lost functionality (eg in the web 
>>> interface) disabling amavisd/clamav/spamassassin in the kolab tree and 
>>> enabling the OS "native" packages for this software?
>>>     
>>
>> I believe that should work since that route is just port based. As
>> long as you use the same ports you should be fine.
>>
>> Would be nice to know if it works for you. I would document it in the
>> wiki then.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>>   
>
> It works great; I took a few step to achieve the main goal (I'm using 
> Debian etch) without disturbing the running system
>
> 1) Install clamav related packages: clamav, clamav-base, 
> clamav-freshclam, libclamav3 -using volatile repository-
> 2) Add the newly created user clamav to the kolab-r group
> 3) Stop and disable clamav from the /kolab tree
> 4) Install clamav-daemon -from volatile repository- and check it is running
>
> At this fase the system is already using the newly installed clamav from 
> Debian
>
> 5) Install razor, pyzor, dcc and dspam (amavisd-new Debian package seems 
> to use dspam even if spamassassin doesn't)
> 6) Install spamassassin -using the volatile repository- configure it to 
> run the cron job included in the Debian package 
> (etc/default/spamassassin) and to enable pyzor, razor and dcc 
> (/etc/spamassasin/local.cf) and any other configuration for your own site
> 7) Stop and disable both spamassassin and amavis from the /kolab tree
> 8) Install amavisd-new -from volatile repository- and immediately change 
> the port amavisd-new uses to give the message back to postfix from port 
> 10025 to port 10026 (edit /etc/amavisd-new/conf.d/50-user and add the 
> following two lines
> $notify_method  = 'smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10026';
> $forward_method = 'smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10026';
> This is needed because port 10025 is used to inject back mail to postfix 
> from the kolabfilter
> 9) check amavisd-new is running and test your system!
>
> Hope this helps

Thansk a lot!

I will add it to the wiki soon...

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Cheers
> Luca
>
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