Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

[Deku42 <da...@gmail.com>]

We recently had an employee leave who maintained our mail gateway, which has
now been pushed on to me. Very little instructions were left, but I need to
whitelist an address via SpamAssassin. I added the domain into the local.cf
file, but then the instructions say to restart /etc/init.d/spampd, but I'm
told there is no such file or directory. I try to search for the file but I
get no results. I checked the postfix master.cf to see if Spamassassin was
linked together with amavisd-new or postfix but I don't see anything. Is
there any advice you can give to get the new settings in local.cf put into
production? The SpamAssassin version running is 3.003001 and it is on Fedora
12

Thanks
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Re: Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

[Bowie Bailey <Bo...@BUC.com>]

On 1/17/2012 12:26 PM, Deku42 wrote:
> Took a loot in /etc/init.d and found nothing spam related. I did a find /
> -name "spam*" and found a few different instances of spamd in
> /root/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1/ and /usr/local/bin, but no spampd results.
> Would I restart the spamd process or Spamassassin altogether?

If you are using amavisd-new, it runs SpamAssassin internally, so you
would not have a separate daemon.  In that case, you would restart Amavisd.

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Re: Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

[Deku42 <da...@gmail.com>]

Took a loot in /etc/init.d and found nothing spam related. I did a find /
-name "spam*" and found a few different instances of spamd in
/root/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1/ and /usr/local/bin, but no spampd results.
Would I restart the spamd process or Spamassassin altogether?



milesf wrote:
> 
> Deku42 wrote:
>> We recently had an employee leave who maintained our mail gateway, which
>> has
>> now been pushed on to me. Very little instructions were left, but I need
>> to
>> whitelist an address via SpamAssassin. I added the domain into the
>> local.cf
>> file, but then the instructions say to restart /etc/init.d/spampd, but
>> I'm
>> told there is no such file or directory. I try to search for the file but
>> I
>> get no results. I checked the postfix master.cf to see if Spamassassin
>> was
>> linked together with amavisd-new or postfix but I don't see anything. Is
>> there any advice you can give to get the new settings in local.cf put
>> into
>> production? The SpamAssassin version running is 3.003001 and it is on
>> Fedora
>> 12
> 
> Looks like a typo to me.  Take a look in /etc/init.d/ for anything 
> starting with spam... (in my installation it's /etc/init.d/spamassassin 
> - might be someplace different in yours, given that you're running
> Fedora).
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

[Miles Fidelman <mf...@meetinghouse.net>]

Deku42 wrote:
> We recently had an employee leave who maintained our mail gateway, which has
> now been pushed on to me. Very little instructions were left, but I need to
> whitelist an address via SpamAssassin. I added the domain into the local.cf
> file, but then the instructions say to restart /etc/init.d/spampd, but I'm
> told there is no such file or directory. I try to search for the file but I
> get no results. I checked the postfix master.cf to see if Spamassassin was
> linked together with amavisd-new or postfix but I don't see anything. Is
> there any advice you can give to get the new settings in local.cf put into
> production? The SpamAssassin version running is 3.003001 and it is on Fedora
> 12

Looks like a typo to me.  Take a look in /etc/init.d/ for anything 
starting with spam... (in my installation it's /etc/init.d/spamassassin 
- might be someplace different in yours, given that you're running Fedora).



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Re: Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

[Martin Gregorie <ma...@gregorie.org>]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:02 -0800, Deku42 wrote:
> We recently had an employee leave who maintained our mail gateway, which has
> now been pushed on to me. Very little instructions were left, but I need to
> whitelist an address via SpamAssassin. I added the domain into the local.cf
> file, but then the instructions say to restart /etc/init.d/spampd, but I'm
> told there is no such file or directory. I try to search for the file but I
> get no results. I checked the postfix master.cf to see if Spamassassin was
> linked together with amavisd-new or postfix but I don't see anything. Is
> there any advice you can give to get the new settings in local.cf put into
> production? The SpamAssassin version running is 3.003001 and it is on Fedora
> 12
> 
Login as root and run the command 

	service spamassassin restart

See "man service" for details, but in general "service --status-all"
lists all known services and whether they are running.
 
"service servicename -?" tells you what commands a service will accept.
Almost all understand start,stop,status,and restart.
 
Martin