| More recent versions of qmail-scanner include native support for both spamc |
| and spamassassin. However, since qmail-scanner is itself a Perl script, it |
| can use significant resources while running. If you don't need the |
| antivirus features of qmail-scanner, you can use qmail-spamc instead. This |
| small wrapper program (written in c) can be used to insert spamc into the |
| stream ahead of qmail-queue. It is used in much the same fashion as |
| qmail-scanner, which requires patching qmail to use the QMAILQUEUE |
| environment variable. |
| |
| From a system startup file (like /etc/profile), set QMAILQUEUE like this: |
| |
| export QMAILQUEUE='/usr/bin/qmail-spamc' |
| |
| and add a similar line to the run script for the smtpd service. If you are |
| using the recommended daemontools installation, you can do something like |
| this instead: |
| |
| echo /usr/bin/qmail-spamc > /service/smtpd/env/QMAILQUEUE |
| |
| Now, all e-mail sent through qmail (either by smtp or qmail-inject) will be |
| processed by spamc/spamd before being scheduled for delivery. You will |
| have to have both qmail-queue and spamc in a directory in the system PATH |
| in order for this to work correctly. |
| |
| John Peacock |
| jpeacock@rowman.com |
| July 8, 2002 |
| |
| To build qmail-spamc, type |
| |
| make qmail/qmail-spamc |
| |
| at the top level. (Nov 20 2002 jm) |
