SA logging with amavis

[Michael Monnerie <mi...@it-management.at>]

You don't get a spamd log when SA is called via amavis. That's not good 
if you want stats. So what could we do to have that?

SA is called directly via Mail::SpamAssassin from amavis. Is it possible 
to configure that to log like spamd?

The other idea I have is to disable SA support in amavis, and just use 
it for the virus checks, and call SA directly. I'm not sure this would 
be good, because amavis is working very robust and I'm happy with it 
(except for this logging issue).

Any other way? Maybe something with SQL? I love stats, and that's how 
you can fine tune your system - so I'd like to have all the info I can 
get.

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Re: SA logging with amavis

[Vivek Khera <vi...@khera.org>]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote:

> The other idea I have is to disable SA support in amavis, and just use
> it for the virus checks, and call SA directly. I'm not sure this would

why not teach your log analyzer to understand amavisd-new's log  
format, too?

Re: SA logging with amavis

[Noel Jones <no...@gmail.com>]

On 4/21/06, Michael Monnerie <mi...@it-management.at> wrote:
> You don't get a spamd log when SA is called via amavis. That's not good
> if you want stats. So what could we do to have that?
>
> SA is called directly via Mail::SpamAssassin from amavis. Is it possible
> to configure that to log like spamd?
>
> The other idea I have is to disable SA support in amavis, and just use
> it for the virus checks, and call SA directly. I'm not sure this would
> be good, because amavis is working very robust and I'm happy with it
> (except for this logging issue).
>
> Any other way? Maybe something with SQL? I love stats, and that's how
> you can fine tune your system - so I'd like to have all the info I can
> get.
>

There are several log analyzers built to work with amavisd-new
logging.  Maybe one will work for you.
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#contrib

also, amavisd-new logging is somewhat configurable.  Maybe you can
convince it to do what you want directly.  Check the amavis-users list
and archives for help.

Changing your configuration to use spamd separately from amavisd-new
is certainly an option.  Weigh the advantages of each method and
decide which best suits your needs.

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Noel Jones