Spam Assassin and Fedora 9 mail/Sendmail
 

I'm using the Fedora 9 installation mail/Sendmail... How do I configure Spam Assassin to work in this configuration? The Redhat site gives a nice set of instructions if I was using Procmail. But I couldn't find anything for my set up...Spam Assassin is running...

i think the idea would be to use procmail as the MDA for sendmail
have no idea how to do that however
configuring sendmail seems like casting some weird wichcraft spell
(who thought that stuff up anyway?)

Any idea who might know or where I could find out?

if you are just using fetchmail to get your mail you can call procmail straight from there and bypass sendmail with this line:at the bottom of your ~/.fetchmailrc file
for sendmail
i think all you need to use is this macro in the .mc file
(as i said earlier i dodn't use sendmail so i am out on a linb here)
FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/bin/procmail')

(adjust path)



you can find tutorials around on the net for using m4 on a .mc file to create a new .cf file for sendmail
make sure you are using instructions for your version of sendmail
and back up the old .cf before you try a new one so you don't loose it
first stop sendmail
if i remember correctly redhat uses the file
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
you put the macro in there
then after backing up the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file
run:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
then restart sendmail
either way you get it going
now you need a ~/.procmailrc file
this one is mine it puts my spam in a mail file $HOME/mail/spam
you can put it anywhere or if you are running an imap server and have some folders or whatever
and i'm not running spammassassin as a daemon !
not sure if t's the same or what.