DSPAM: Deliver ham not working?

MaartenZzZ · Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: DSPAM: Deliver ham not working?

Dear communtity,

I'm using DSPAM for a while and it works great, only:

When I try to deliver a message in the quarantine it won't be delivered(?).
Can anybody tell me what could be wrong? The message disapears in the quarantine, but I won't find the message in my mailbox.

Your thoughts are very welcome

thank you!
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magic919 · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

I take it you are releasing a quaratined message using the webui.

Check the logs on your MTA first. Then DSPAM logs. Maybe build DSPAM with debug after that.

MaartenZzZ · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:37 am Post subject:

magic919 · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject:

You're welcome.

Now when you say it 'forwards' the message, can you look closer? Mine seems to 'bounce' the message, as evidenced by from=<>, to the original recipient.

Mine does bounce it to the original recipient, but I guess that doesn't help you. :-)

My suggestion would be that you are using the user 'filter' for all recipients, but not as a group. I will add a cautionary note that DSPAM on Gentoo broke for me a while back due it segfaulting on re-train. I'm using dspam-3.8.0-r11 on mine as that was ok, but maybe I was just unlucky.

MaartenZzZ · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject:

Hmm, can you explain what you mean with

magic919 · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject:

Sure.

I have a group called filter. It is used by user1@example.com, user2@domain.com and user3@website.com

In DSPAM's home I put a file called group. It contains:

Fooligan · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

I seem to run into the same problem as MaartenZzZ did. I did create the user "filter" and my released mail ends up in the filter mailbox from where I put it in the intended user's mailbox.

My setup consist of postfix - dpam - courier-imapd - cyrus-sasl It was originally set up with help from "Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide" http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml and "Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide" http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml including all the mysql tables etc.

For the Dspam implementation I used "HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_DSPAM_and_Postfix" http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_DSPAM_and_Postfix

Since the Amavisd-new and Spamassassin let through too many mails for me I decided to switch to Dspam.

One of the problems I noticed is that Dspam seems to use the mbox format instead of the .maildir format I use for the rest of the setup.

While using the dspam-web gui I don't find this too big a problem.

The problem rises when the gui advises me to sent spam that was delivered to the users mailboxes to spam-filter@domain.com. The mail system replies that the address doesn't exist.

My questions I'm struggeling with are;
How do I either get the mail delivered to /var/spool/dspam/data/local/filter/filter.mbox ? Or get Spamd to use the .maildir that was created somehow during the process at /var/spool/dspam/.maildir ?

magic919 · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Similar problem

Fooligan · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

Thanks for your quick reply. Was afraid this thread had been forgotten after 3 months.(although not signed as solved)

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magic919 · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:15 am Post subject:

Ok. Here's my 2p. You can create a Postfix alias and have a dedicated transport for retraining and that'll work. But if you don't 100% understand those concepts it'll be hard work. Do you really need the email forwarding option?

If you already use IMAP for your mail users then create a sub-folder called Spam (case sensitive) for each of them. Then run a script to check all the mail sub-folders named Spam and retrain the contents. I can post the content of the script I use for that.