SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.
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AMaViS: missing X-Spam-Status header
I set up a mail server with Dovecot, Postfix and AMaViS on Debian Squeeze following the tutorial on workaround.org (ISPmail tutorial for Debian Squeeze). It uses virtual domains and stores the ...
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SpamAssassin Presets
We're currently migrating our mail from a manually administered RHEL box to a CPanel box, which I'm so excited about I will probably weep a little when it finally happens.
As part of the migration, I ...
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Configuring Postfix, Spamassassin and Procmail to put spam in a dedicated folder
I'm not sure if SF is the good place for that, so sorry if it's not the case.
I'm administrating a Debian server for our company's emails and I'm trying to have the emails flagged as spam by ...
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Postfix address resolver failure & loopback to root
Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 With LAMP stack.
The goal is to setup a web server that can send mail via the PHP mail() function, which uses localhost. The mail must then be relayed to an ISP domain ...
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Sent messages copied to inbox too
I have a server with postfix, courier-imap and spamassassin installed.
All the messages are well received and sent.
But i have an issue about sent messages are copied to
"sent" folder and to ...
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What's wrong with this SpamAssassin rule?
body LOCAL_SHORT_BODY /^.{2,120}$/
score LOCAL_SHORT_BODY 0.4
describe LOCAL_SHORT_BODY Short body
I included this in my local.cf, and gave it a low score as it's not really a great indicator of ...
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Which configuration is loaded after sa-update?
I use amavisd-new 2.6.5 and SpamAssassin 3.2.2 (on ubuntu 12.04). I just ran for the first time the sa-update command.
I see that there is new files in ...
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locating spam messages
I recently installed and configured spamassassin using this tutorial
http://www.datacentrix.org/blog/faq/How-to-integrate-SpamAssassin-with-Postfix.html
I sent some spammy emails to test if it was ...
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Our outgoing emails from a shared hosting provider (Bluehost) are returned because the server is listed as SPAM SERVERS
I am getting very frustrated with this web hosting provider -- Bluehost.com. We have several small business sites hosted with them. We also use email accounts provided by the Bluehost for our outgoing ...
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SpamAssassin (spampd) ignoring user_prefs
I have an Ubuntu (12.10) server running postfix and SpamAssassin. I've set up spampd following these directions on the SpamAssassin wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratePostfixViaSpampd
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Postfix sendmail sets original recipient
I have a postfix + dovecot with a spamassassin doing some content filtering on the postfix side. The problem is that with a recent update the originally available sendmail binary was replaced with the ...
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Is there a reason why DKIM signs every mail twice [closed]
I've configured my postfix/amavisd-new/spam-assassin setup after this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/DKIM. But now the problem is that all mails I send are double signed with two ...
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Prevent outgoing spam
What are some ways to prevent spam from leaving your servers should a hosting account get compromised?
Have a bunch of clients on a server with cpanel but wondering if there was a way to just ...
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exim or dovecot plugin or filter to put body preview to header [closed]
Is there any filter which would allow me to have the plain or html text body synopsis (preview) in the mail header as well? Like SpamAssassin does for spam emails (it inserts X-Spam-Report header with ...
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spamassassin with no spamd.pid
I already have a folder in /var/run/ with the name of spamassassin but I can't seem to find spamd.pid anywhere on the server, I already have spamassassin up and running but I need to monitor the ...
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SA with or without amavis-new - whats faster?
Currently i have working setup of postfix with virtual users which uses amavis (with SA and clamav) to filter messages.
The problem is, i need to allow every user to be able to adjust their SA ...
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Skip spamassassin processing if a certain email is present
Is there a way to tell Spamassassin to skip a mail, in case a certain header is present, so it leads to an unmodified output of the original mail? So that no Spamassassin-Headers are added, no ...
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How to test SpamAssassin and spam filters
Which is the best way to test SpamAssassin's functionality and configured Spam filters?
I'm aware of the Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email. but I would like to have a "real" Spam test that ...
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Why does SpamAssasin mark emails as SPAM due to RCVD_IN_PBL RBL?
My email is being marked as SPAM by SpamAssasin.
The problem is score 3.3 (among others):
3.3 RCVD_IN_PBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus PBL
* [212.95.7.48 listed in zen.spamhaus.org]
I ...
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Exim and spamassassin custom rule
i have exim and spamassassin (used by exiscan) installed and running, but i want to add custom rule which will add some points to emails if "to" and "envelope-to" are not identical. I added following ...
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Roundcube in different server as the mail server how to use mark/not mark as spam
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Roundcube IMAP client located in server A
Mail server with spamassassin support is located Server B
In order to use the mark/not mark as spam functionality per user a roundcube plugin ...
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E-mail address spoofing by spammers - how to block it in Postfix/Spamassassin?
I run a Postfix mail server using Spamassassin as after-queue filter.
It works quite well, but sometimes I get spam from the network that has correct MAIL FROM: address, but also contains, in DATA: ...
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claws mail spam filtering - use spampd or something else?
I have claws mail set up on my desktop PC and get my mail from my ISP using POP3.
I saw that it had a plugin for spamassassin and since I get a fair amount of spam, I configured it.
However, it ...
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How to whitelist a domain while blocking forgeries using that domain?
How do you deal with the case of:
wanting to whitelist a domain so that emails from it won't get eaten, but
not having emails forged to appear to be from that domain get bogusly whitelisted
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SpamAssassin: need to block messages with high number of image links
A client of mine is running SpamAssassin with numerous settings but still getting dogged by spam messages that contain a small amount of HTML but numbers of tags that link to embedded spam messages. ...
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Amavis and Spamassassin wont pass spam as spam with second domain
I'm currently setting up amavis and spamassassin with postfix. So far Spamasassin blocks and bounces Spam. if i set $final_spam_destiny to D_PASS the mail gets through, but the $sa_spam_subject_tag ...
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DNS: MX listing points to google apps and A listing to my own server. Can I send emails from my own server without being classified as spam?
Linux DNS networking question:
If an MX record points to IP address 111.111.111.111 and A record of a domain points to 222.222.222.222, can I still send emails from 222.222.222.222 on the behalf of a ...
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Occasional POP3 / IMAP authentication failures
I have a server running with the following setup:
Cloudlinux 5.8 x86_64 (2.6.18-408.el5.lve0.8.61.1xen)
cPanel / WHM 11.32.3 with cPHulk enabled
Dovecot 1.2.17
Spam Assassin 3.003001
csf/lfd 5.59
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How to create default subfolders using procmail with Maildir (and postfix) that work with MUA's?
I have a procmail setup and want to have a Spam folder that works with MUA's.
I found this tutorial http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-move-spam-mail-to-spam-folder/ but it doesn't work as ...
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Email Deliverability on Yahoo is very poor. Any suggestions please?
All other ISPs (Google, AOL, Hotmail) are fantastic, hitting 98-100% in the inbox. Yahoo is very random, and lately our deliverability has dropped drastically. All IPs are senders certified by Return ...
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Spamassassin - check if mail is sent from same domain as the recipient
I'm using a plugin to do up-mark spam that is sent from different domain that is set in the 'reply-to' field - lately we've noticed A LOT of spam like that.
I'd like to add a failsafe to only mark ...
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Postfix looping back to itself for a relay domain
I cannot send email to anyone at a certain domain, except to a particular recipient. Here is what I am seeing in the quarantine/cache logs for an email sent by Maia (a quarantine program) to a user ...
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SpamAssassin sending legit emails to spam, despite sender being whitelist
I can not for the life of me figure out why emails from a "white-listed" sender are still getting very high scores from SpamAssassin and not being delivered.
The email headers are:
From ...
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Any way I can send Spam to my mail perimeter in a controlled way for testing?
I just set up a Postfix/Procmail/SpamAssassin server but I am not convinced that it is really doing much filtering. I have gotten it to recognize the SpamAssassin special Spam code that produces a ...
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Configure spamassassin to mark very similar messages as spam
Users on my server have been receiving spam, consistently, for some time now. I have most of spamassassin's plugins enabled, and I have made sure to enable verbose logging, where I can see that all of ...
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Postfix + procmail - delivery fails because “can't create user output file” - on CentOS 6.2
I verified that my postfix installation / relaying setup worked. Now I am having trouble with procmail. I have it wired to postfix with the following command:
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -f ...
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Spamassassin create rule to reject mail if sender address is same as reciver
How to do it? I am SAwin32 (spamassassin for windows) beginner.
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I need advices: small memory footprint linux mail server with spam filtering
I have a VPS which is originally destined to be a webserver but some minimal mail capabilities are needed to be deployed as well, including sending and receiving as standalone server.
The current ...
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Plesk: Spamassassin ignores emails to redirected accounts
When I set up email redirects within Plesk 9.5, Spamassassin ignores all emails sent to the redirected address and only scans emails that are sent directly to the address which has a mailbox.
Steps ...
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Spamassassin disable spam information raports
I use SAWin32 (AKA SpamAssassin for Win32) with Microsoft Exchange 2000.
My users are receiving the following information concerning incoming messages that may be spam:
"This mail is probably spam. ...
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Spamassassin? update channels?
I know this was asked here: but things seem to have changed. It appears that the old SARE rules are listed as broken
The recommended SOUGHT channels seem to be down and DNS is broken for ...
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Quarantined mail retrieval from SpamAssassin/ClamAV/Postfix
We run a mail relay service in a multi tenant deployment for clients. We started doing this because commercially available relay services were silly money when compared to the costs of building one ...
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Why does gmail flag my server emails as spam?
I recently moved my server to a new slice at slicehost and since, gmail has been flagging my email as spam. I have added domain keys, created a SPF record, have reverse dns setup, and my ip is not ...
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What is a valid target for Spam Assassin's sa-learn?
I'd like to train my Spam Assassin with some spam that it's missed, however I'm confused. With sa-learn I could target:
raw message
text-message (body)
html (body)
What one of those options is ...
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How do I read the Smarter Mail -delivery log's SPAM CHECK line?
Some of them read like this:
23:08:45 [01038] Spam check results: [_SPAMASSASSIN: 12:25]
And some of them read like this:
22:02:38 [01034] Spam check results: [_SPAMASSASSIN: 0:0]
22:17:48 [01035] ...
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In Exim, is RBL spam rejected prior to being scanned by SpamAssassin?
I've recently been battling spam issues on our mail server. One account in particular was getting hammered with incoming spam. SpamAssassin's memory use is one of our concerns.
What I've done is ...
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spamassassin via procmail: .procmailrc moves spam messages, but /etc/procmailrc doesn't
I am trying this example to set up spamassassin via procmail globally. It successfully adds the X-Spam headers, but it does not move messages to the spam mboxes.
However, using this example locally, ...
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Spamassassin filter mail with attachment
I would like to add a spamassassin rule based on if a message coming from a particular sender has an attachment or not. Is there a way to filter messages from a certain sender so that mails without ...
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Strip SpamAssassin headers before processing
I have a server running cPanel/WHM with exim and SpamAssassin. I've been noticing an issue where emails coming in with forged spamassassin headers bypassing some of the filtering. I want to strip out ...
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Spamassassin/Exim (incorrectly) blocking mail from localhost as spam
On our server we've got a problem with spamassassin/exim4 blocking email from our mailing list software as spam. This because (usually) the headers the software (ecartis) adds add points to make it go ...
