Scalix+SpamAssassin+SLES 9

[slylos]

I tried following the article posted in the KB about creating two ip address, one for Sendmail which is public and one for Scalix which is private. I under stand how to do this, but the problem I'm having is this article is geared towards Redhat, and nothing is in the same place as the article states it is when I look for things in SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. In fact, in my sendmail.cf, it says I shouldn't edit that file, I should edit all the include files. I tried for about 3hrs to find documentation on getting SpamAssassin and sendmail to work, but could not find anything. Can someone please shed some light on this subject! I ditched qmail+qmail-scanner+clamav+spamassassin, which I have experience with, to give Scalix Community Edition a shot. Getting SpamAssassin/ClamAv to work with qmail/qmail-scanner is cake, not so with sendmail/Scalix. Please help!!

[jreeder]

stylos,

I just finished installing spamassassin with Scalix on Fedora. I can't speak to the differences but maybe I can assist a bit with a few pointers.

1) Our server has two ethernet ports so I completely skipped the part about setting up the second ethernet address because we already had two ip's.

2) Forget the warnings and simply make the changes to sendmail.cf (after backing up the original of course).

3) The line that you should add to the section for MAIL FILTER DEFINITIONS might need tweaking:

Xspamassassin, S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m

On Fedora Core 4, the actual socket address is /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock

This socket location was listed in the shell script that launches spamass-milter (for Fedora it's in /etc/init.d/spamass-milter)

4) DON'T add the line ANONYMOUS reject ALL to your smtpd.cfg, it will prevent SWA from sending mail

5) edit /etc/mail/local-host-names and add any domains that your mail server receives mail for (if the location is different on your mail server then 'locate local-host-names') or sendmail will RELAY REJECT all incoming mail

6) reboot after all is done

[slylos]

Thanks for the tips jreeder, I will try these asap and post of any success I have here. I'm looking forward to getting this working, Scalix is awesome!