Well, SAgate has a new and catchier name: Baleen (as in whale). I’ve also gotten the bugs worked out of the system and have it running is general test mode (accessible with a special domain address, but not yet handling all of our domain’s traffic as the default MX).
The main bug was that SQL preferences weren’t taking in SpamAssassin properly. I don’t know what the right incantation for the SA perl code ended up being, but I found a way to run spamd with full SQL access, referencing full address usernames (and not trying to setuid), so I modified the MIMEDefang code to run spamc and submit the message to spamd, and this seems to work. This means we’ve got an extra fork going on for spamc, and if I get a chance I may look into making the MD code a spamd client itself. One nice thing about using spamd is that I can make config changes to SA without having to take down MD. Nice decoupling. Now I need to delete the cruft code from the MD filter.
I also had to download the DCC clients. I was under the mistaken impression that I had some perl modules that were DCC clients already, or that it was somehow included with SA (like the URL block lists are). No such luck, but the FreeBSD port is workable and available. I may try to see if I can run some daemon mode DCC service so SA doesn’t have to fork off a DCC client itself for each message, but that’s less of a worry.
Posted by Rowan Littell at April 12, 2005 08:48 PM