[clug] Sendmail, spamassassin and cyrus

[Stephen Hodgman]

G'day,
I was wondering if anyone could perhaps offer me advice on how to integrate 
spamassassin into our email server?

We currently use sendmail as the mta.  This is on a debian woody system.  I have 
installed cyrus as a mailer so we are able to use imap mail boxes.  The delivery to 
cyrus as the internal mailer is done with a  mailertable entry like:

mail.domain.com.au		cyrus:mail.domain.com.au

This works well.  We would now like to install spamassassin to provide mail herders to 
be used for filtering.  My problem is that I currently don't use procmail and 
spamassassin seems to rely on using it.  My current idea is to enable procmail using:

MAILER(procmail)dnl

so sendmail knows about it as a local mailer and setup procmailrc rules to call 
spamassassin.  I would create a dummy host with MX pointing to myself  use 
mailertable entries like this to get mail finally delivered to cyrus:

mail.domain.com.au		`	procmail:dummy.domain.com.au
dummy.domain.com.au		cyrus:mail.domain.com.au

Can anyone please let me know if this is the correct approach?  Or if not then what 
the correct one would be?
Thanks for your time,
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Stephen Hodgman               steve at namsys.com.au
Namadgi Systems                Ph. +61 2 6285 3460
Canberra                       Fax +61 2 6285 3459
Australia