I’ve been deploying some old tech recently (smokeping, crm114, spamassassin!) and I’m wondering if they’re still the right tools for those jobs or if I’m relying on very out of date expertise

In the case of SA, I’m not planning on using its actual filter rules, but it’s a method of connecting Exim and crm114. I guess I could swap out crm114 but I’ve been so happy with it. Another tool for this job is https://github.com/jmtd/crm114-spamd/blob/master/crm114-spamd.c. But it’s a lot less battle tested than SA

@ilmari it took longer than I thought but I added a smokeping slave today. Interesting design: master sends Perl to slaves to execute

@ilmari well, I say "working". neither side is complaining, but the graphs for the slaves are blank. Sigh. a rollin' up my sleeves I go!

@noodles @pndc I think that's the system that is recommended in @mwl's email book. Likewise I'm squinting at the base level complexity

@RogerBW @pndc do you invoke crm114 via SA?

@RogerBW @pndc gotcha, thanks. That's my setup atm, I'm looking at SMTP-time crm114 now, probably via SA.

@pndc @mwl @noodles my plan for it is purely to use it as a vehicle for invoking crm114; I may disable all the other tests, hopefully I can avoid its performant pain points