SpamAssassin supports reading user_prefs out of LDAP. Would be nice for the Usermin/Webmin modules to support it as well. :) Can you tell I'm pushing hard for LDAP support? ;)

Can you tell I'm pushing hard for LDAP support?

You do it so well, we hardly noticed. ;-)

Seriously, I think LDAP is great for large-scale hosting...and we're happy to keep pushing the support forward one piece at a time. This is a reasonable request--not even really Blue Skies. I'll file an RFE in the tracker, and we'll see what Jamie thinks.

Hi Tony,
Do you have a pointer to some docs on getting spamassassin / LDAP integration setup?
Actually, I should also add support for using MySQL to store settings too while I am at it..

http://search.cpan.org/src/FELICITY/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0/ldap/README

The short of it is that the admin needs to add the SpamAssassin schema to ldap, they provide you with connection details, and you use the SpamAssassin module to push out the info using those connection details. In fact, it's a safe bet that the user has LDAP Users and Groups configured properly prior to this step, so you could just do a cursory check that they have the SpamAssassin schema set up, if not, ask them if it's okay to do so, do it, and use those connection details for SA.

MySQL isn't so different.

http://search.cpan.org/src/FELICITY/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0/sql/README

It wants you to load some .sql files (pretty standard), it wants connection details, and the module does teh rest for you.

Hi Tony,

I've just started work on implementing MySQL and LDAP storage support in the SpamAssassin modules for Webmin and Usermin. If you are interested in getting a beta version to play with, let me know..

I am. I am. :)

Hi Tony,

I have just released Usermin development version 1.303, available from http://www.webmin.com/devel.html . Once you install it, you can configure the SpamAssassin module to use an LDAP database for showing and storing parameters (at Webmin -> Usermin Configuration -> Usermin Module Configuration -> SpamAssassin Mail Filter).

Anyway, check it out and let me know how it goes for you. I'm not 100% sure that it uses the correct format for the 'spamassassin' LDAP attribute.

I'll check it. I also need to make sure Virtualmin uses/respects the changes too. :)

There isn't really anything needed on the Virtualmin side - all it needs to do is call spamc, which is already possible. Let me know if you find anything I am missing though..

Along these same lines, I have an existing server using amavisd-new, spamd, and LDAP to store the custom spamassassin settings on a per-user basis. Amavisd knows how to read LDAP to retrieve the spam setting for a user. This setup handles mail many times faster than the procmail setup on Virtualmin Pro and I would like to move this configuration to the Virtualmin Pro box but don't see a way to do this with the current modules. Does anybody have something started or should create a custom module? I suppose I can leverage the existing spamassassin module into an amavisd/spamd module but would rather start further ahead that what is now there.

Chris