Spamd

peerx

Is SPAMD working on PfSense 1.2.3?

docjay

I would like to know this too. I see a few posts about spamd being confirmed broken in 1.2.1 by cheesyboofs & capitangiaco back in March, but nothing more after that. It would be great to get spamd running correctly on 1.2.3! Can anyone confirm this?

-thanks

docjay

So, now I know what cheesyboofs went through :o…I wish this package would play nice with 1.2.3 nano, but it doesn't. Nor, do I have the expertise to fix the package so that it does.

some things I've noticed that has to be done initially is give the user '_spamd' the correct permissions.

'pw user mod_spamd -u 0' to get rid of the errors in the log that state this: '/sbin/pfctl returned status 1'. From what I have read this error is happening because the user '_spamd' doesn't have the correct rights according to this bug at the bottom of this link: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&sektion=8

BUGS
     spamd currently uses the user ``_spamd'' outside a chroot jail when run-
     ning in default mode, and requires the greylisting database in
     /var/db/spamd to be owned by the ``_spamd'' user.  This is wrong and
     should change to a distinct user from the one used by the chrooted spamd
     process.

spamd-setup is looking for spamd.conf in /usr/local/etc/spamd, not /usr/local/etc/ as indicated in the documentation, so it won't load the black or white lists because of this. After the package install the only thing in the /usr/local/etc/spamd folder is the file spamd.conf.sample. After I made the spamd.conf file from copying the spamd.conf.sample file in the folder and stopped spamd and started it in the shell with: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamd.sh start' I got this returned to me:

Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz
cerberus:/usr/local/etc/spamd#  blacklist uatraps 54496 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/nixspam.gz
blacklist nixspam 40000 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/chinacidr.txt.gz
blacklist china 718 entries
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/koreacidr.txt.gz
blacklist korea 431 entries

–-but the GUI still didn't show any entries in the 'SPAMD Database'
3) I'm sure there a few more changes that need to happen but I have yet to find the next step to get this package running correctly. I would be freakin awesome if SPAMD would run.

I know Sullrich did an extensive overhaul to this package like crazy http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,526.0.html in January '06 but maybe he can take a look at it again to make sure it works with 1.2.3 nano & HDD install if he has time? ;)

I know that we all appreciate his hard work on it in addition to PFSense overall!

danswartz

I set up for default greylist mode, and noticed nothing was getting thru even after changing the passtime to 5 minutes. I STF and found the _spamd user issue. Fixed that.