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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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sa-learn doesn't recognize mbox format
I am new to spam assassin and like to learn from all the previous mail I manually put into a spam folder. I use Communigate Pro as my mail server on a debian system.
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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]
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Linux spamassassin spam filter
How to import exchange user into Linux (spamassassin) I keep getting a hard bounce. Administrative Prohibition
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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 ...
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Recommended way to implement Postfix 'before-queue' SpamAssassin filtering?
After some discussions with colleagues and the relevant depts. in my office, I have come to the conclusion that for my Postfix server, I must implement a 'before-queue' filtering. The reason is that ...
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Moving spam from filter to mail server
I was wondering if its possible to take messages quarantined by a Spamassassin box and move it to the users spam folder residing on an email server. In my case I would want to move mail from an ...
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Mailscanner and amavisd-new comparison
I'm going to implement a mailfiltering gateway for my company. I'm going to use Postfix, with a PostgreSQL back-end.
The question would be: how to best implement the antispam measures.
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Webmin/ SpamAssassin doesn't appear to be 'learning' from forwarded examples of spam
I have spamtrap@ and hamtrap@ addresses set up on my mail server and forward examples of spam to the spamtrap address. I was hoping that after a few examples, SpamAssassin would 'learn' to identify ...
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OS X Server script to archive (or empty) a users mailbox every morning
I have a requirement (SpamAssassin 'training') to archive (or delete) two user's (users are junkmail and notjunkmail) inboxes at a given time every day if there is anything in them.
Can anyone help ...
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Spamassassin does not work with virtual emails
I have a mailserver running with postfix/spamassassin/amavis/dovecot/mysql... under debian squeeze and all seems to work fine, except one thing: Email forwarder (virtual aliases) never gets scanned by ...
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Lower SpamAssassin scores when certificate verification fails
I’ve noticed that I’m getting junk mail from Norwegian companies that send from servers that Postfix says failed certificate verification. Is it possible to give these messages a lower spam score with ...
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Postfix :: redirect spam mail to different mx transport?
Postfix with spamassassin. Acts as an anti-spam gateway for a domain. Scans and then relays.
I want to take mail that has been tagged as spam by spamassassin, and send it to a different mail server ...
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Processing items with SpamAssassin and sa-learn
I have been working on getting SpamAssassin up and running for awhile now and am pretty close to being finished. However, there is one last thing that is grinding away at me that I can't seem to ...
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Bayesian filtering for Exchange 2010
So here's the deal.
Basically, I am looking for a convenient way to get spam from my Exchange 2010 mail server to my spam filter/proxy (whatever you want to call it) in a mail format for ...
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SpamAssassin: Update Rules Results in Ignored Local.cf
I am trying to update SpamAssassin's config on my server, since for whatever reason it thinks that DNSWL is whitelisting every incoming mail message. I put adjusted scores in /etc/mail/local.cf, but ...
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Spamassassin AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
I am not sure what does this flag means in Spamassassin score checking?
My test returned "1 of 5" and mentioned this:
1.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
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Can SpamAssassin be configured to filter on Subject lines?
Is it possible to configure SpamAssassin to filter incoming email, based on specific words in the subject line? For instance, all emails with the words "orange delight" anywhere in the subject, would ...
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Tell Postfix not to deliver mail when SpamAssassin isn't running
I have Postfix configured to filter mail using the SpamAssassin spamd daemon. I noticed recently that some spam messages would be delivered to my inbox with no SpamAssassin headers added. I tracked ...
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SpamAssassin custom rules
Is it possible to create a custom rule for spamassassin to stop spam based on the total number of recipients in the mail?
Thanks
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Failing to start spamasassin to run as a daemon on slackware linux 13.1
Hullo Spamasassin Users,
When i start Spamasassin as a stand alone it gives me the error below:
warn: archive-iterator: no access to status: No such file or directory at ...
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Skip Spamassassin for internal mail
SpanAssassin has flagging internal mail between our users as spam, rather than adding our IPs or domains to SpamAssassin's whitelists I thought it would be best to skip SA and ClamAV all together for ...
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Force users to use BCC
I want to force users sending mail to my server to use BCC (we're
getting a lot of internal spam created by mailings to 30+ mailing
lists which then reply to all).
I thought spamassassin could be a ...
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How can I pass a username to spamassassin from smtp-vilter?
I'm running a mail server using sendmail as the MDA, passing to Dovecot's deliver as the LDA.
I've added smtp-vilter as a means to run spamassassin on incoming mail. This works well.
However, ...
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Open Source or lower-cost alternatives to Barracuda Spam Filter
I'm aware of SpamAssassin-based solutions, but I'm looking for a free or low(er) cost spam filtering solution that's similar in functionality to the Barracuda Spam Filter. The Barracuda works well, ...
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amavis consider catchall as unknown
I'm running sendmail with amavis + amavis-milter on SERVER "A". SERVER "B" is working behind SERVER "A" which holds multiple domains. Some of the domains having catchall accounts for unknown users.
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What is the difference for spamassassin between using sa-learn and not using it?
I have a question. Whether the use of sa-learn to teach spamassassin about email spam and ham it matter? How if I do not use it because I do not have a sample of spam or ham in my mail server?
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How to stop backscatter email spam
I know I can't do anything about people spoofing my email address, but what can I do about all those annoying bounce-mails?
I get 5-10 "Undeliverable mail" a day, but I don't know how I can filter ...
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External SpamAssassin server with cPanel
Does anyone have any experience with using an external SpamAssassin server with cPanel? I'm curious to know if you realized any performance improvement on the cPanel server by doing this.
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Exim4, move all messages with X-Spam-Status set to “Yes” to .Junk folder in user's mail folder
How can I set up a site-wide rule to deliver all messages marked as Spam to the user's .Junk folder? And if the folder doesn't exist, create it. I know I can make a .forward file in the user's home ...
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spamAssassin in plesk is not filtering spams
From couple of weeks ago, all our customers has start receiving spam emails. It seems like spamAssassin is not working as it should work. What could be the reasons?
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How to reject/detect emails claiming to be from my own domain?
We have following e-mail topology:
Exchange server --------- Sendmail server ---------------Internet
On sendmail server there is no any user mailbox and messages with sender address ...
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Debian server: “sa-learn” process slows system down dramatically
On one of our debian squeeze servers, we use a setup of postfix + amavis + dovecot as mailserver. Spamassassin is part of amavis.
Once a day, the process "sa-learn" is started. It is part of ...
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How to modify a message, so it will be for 100% recognizable as spam by Exchange junk e-mail filter
I have an sendmail server, sitting in front of my Exchange server. This server filters spam with SpamAssassin (and does it incredibly well!), but it merely tags spam messages with appropriate header ...
