CentOS - May 2009 - Disabling Spamassassin on outbound email

Does anybody have a good method for disabling SA checks on outbound 
email under sendmail running the spamass milter? Some of our Vhost 
accounts are getting flagged as spam on the way out due to being on a 
dirty ISP network.

John Hinton

On Mon, 11 May 2009, John Hinton wrote:
> Does anybody have a good method for disabling SA checks on outbound 
> email under sendmail running the spamass milter? Some of our Vhost 
> accounts are getting flagged as spam on the way out due to being on 
> a dirty ISP network.
I have similar issues -- and have punted completely. I setup a 
separate lightweight Xen host to do nothing more than authenticated 
SMTP relay. Most scanning (RBLs, SA) is turned off to avoid just the 
scenario you mention.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

John Hinton wrote:
> Does anybody have a good method for disabling SA checks on outbound 
> email under sendmail running the spamass milter? Some of our Vhost 
> accounts are getting flagged as spam on the way out due to being on a 
> dirty ISP network.
>
> John Hinton
>
>   
I got around this by modifying /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter, and using 
the "-i" option to ignore various IP addresses and/or networks.  See 
spamass-milter(8).

So your /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter might be changed to be:

--- spamass-milter.default      2007-03-08 11:40:11.000000000 -0700
+++ spamass-milter      2008-11-01 15:05:03.000000000 -0700
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 
 ### Default parameter for spamass-milter is -f (work in the background)
 ### you may add another parameters here, see spamass-milter(1)
-#EXTRA_FLAGS="-m -r 15"
+EXTRA_FLAGS="-m -r 5 -i aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd,eee.fff.ggg.0/24"

...etc.

-Greg