SpamAssasin - so why it's not optional? and other suggestions

blacknight said:
Under European law we are obliged to retain logs, though for how long is still to be decided.
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Which law would that be? Do you have a reference to it?
 
mike_p said:
Which law would that be? Do you have a reference to it?
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There's an EU directive on data retention that is currently being discussed by EURISPA and the national governments.
 
:)

There are many solutions out there for sure. SA should be a plugin, I don't see why this should be such a big deal.
 
So what is the current status of SpamAssassin, does it comes installed by default? if so, which version? 3.0?
 
albatroz said:
So what is the current status of SpamAssassin, does it comes installed by default? if so, which version? 3.0?
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SpamAssassin is installed but not configured. It is not yet version 3.0.

There are other threads with more complete information.

Jeff
 
No really there isn't. Those other threads are so messed up, cluttered and out of date that I just spent an hour trying to fix my install.

An up-to-date thread MUST be created and it should also have instructions on upgrading exim and spamassasin the the current DA versions.

BigWil
 
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BigWil said:
No really there isn't. Those other threads are so messed up, cluttered and out of date that I just spent an hour trying to fix my install.
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A lot of threads are cluttered - true.
However you should not rely solely on posts for information on managing your server. Just because someone posts something here does not mean that it is either technically correct or sane.

It might make sense to have howtos posted as read only or something....

BigWil said:

An up-to-date thread MUST be created and it should also have instructions of upgrading exim and spamassasin the the current DA versions.

BigWil
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If you feel so strongly about it why don't you post a new thread with what you would consider to be the most current information on the topic?
 
Well I may just do that. Let me find the most 'sane' and current install, collect info from DA on how to upgrade the Exim/SA and I will post a new thread.

Maybe if I am lucky I can figure out how to add exiscan and clamd while I am at it and it would make for a very nice post.

Even luckier yet would be if I could get a moderator to make it read only. ;-) I also think the How-To section should be readonly. Makes a major mess out of things. The thread titles would even work best if they were dated so it would be easier to figure out what is current.

BigWil
 
If the How-Tos are to be made read only then they'd have to be moderated and couldn't be posted unless someone trusted by DA would check them first and make sure they work properly on every platform they're supposed to work on.

Otherwise there'd be broken How-Tos that no one could fix.

Jeff
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,
I can look into a "condition" for turning it off. It would be a simple addition to the exim.conf where if the user_prefs file doesn't exist, spamassassin is not run for that user. To turn it off, just delete the user_prefs (ill provide a button for the user).

John
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is that button added in Version 1.23?
When i turn off the SA option for a user, SA still checks the msg..
I got hundreds off domains, and i can't check if people turned SA off, and then manual delete the user_prefs
 
Spamassassin added to account packages... Most stupid feature in my opinion. Added just because one can't live with spamassasin page on server where SA is not running, and another one wants to charge his customers for one more service.
Go on - I suggest you should consider about restricting .htaccess, SSI, FileManager, PhpMyAdmin, Webalizer and _every_ single feature on per-package basis.

Now we must add spam=ON manually for all existing accounts to work. Lucky, it can be done with small script.

At the same time, user's interface still lacking of flexibility, just as before.
DirectAdmin Support said:
I can look into a "condition" for turning it off. It would be a simple addition to the exim.conf where if the user_prefs file doesn't exist, spamassassin is not run for that user. To turn it off, just delete the user_prefs (ill provide a button for the user).
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So, and where is that button?
 
system RH9
exim 4.24
DA 1.23.1


you all are talking over my head but I will say I got some really *&$^*# users right now because SA is kicking all kindso fo stuff around. One domain has problems sending email back and forth to each other (inner office). Now if that just aint BS. Anyway, I am trying to make some since of this SA stuff.
I logged into the Reseller level and modified the user account (domainX) to not have SA turned on. Log back in to DA panel as user and SA setup is no longer there. Does this mean that SA is effectively turned "off" for this user domain?
This thread leaves me to think that SA is still checking messages.

Clarification. Me, mr novice need direction. Is SA off or what needs to be done. I think I can turn it on and set the score value to something like 1000. That should let anything through?

help...

thanks!
 
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