[tech] dcc on mooneye

[Andrew Adamson]

CC-ing to tech@ so that others may learn... 

For those reading at home, DCC is a hash sharing system used in spam 
filtering to recognise bulk email: https://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/

We were using dcc until a debian upgrade meant zanchey had to restore a 
default spamassassin config. I haven't bothered looking at it since 
because the spam filtering was working well enough for my needs.

The DCC module is loaded with a line in /etc/spamassassin/v310.pre, but 
then the local.cf config isn't telling spamassassin to filter traffic 
using said module.

If anyone is keen, the old config on mooneye is in 
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf.dpkg-old and would need porting to 
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf.

It would be good if we could re-enable pyzor and razor at the same time
(more spam reporting and detection services).

If a non-wheel member wants to take a look at this, poke me and we'll see 
what we can do.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

|"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
| ---Peter's Laws                                                        |

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Matt Johnston wrote:

> I restarted postfix on mooneye after the outage, the logs have this. Is
> dccifd meant to be running or spamassassin's config needs that disabled?
> Jul 31 22:14:47 mooneye spamd[10989]: dcc: failed to connect to local
> socket /var/dcc/dccifd 
> 
> 
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