Questions tagged [spamassassin]
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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How to config user_prefs (SpamAssassin) individually per user in Redis DB?
I'm going to implement mail gateway with FreeBSD 10.1.
So, I installed Postfix, Amavisd, Clamav, Spamassassin, Procmail (for filtering spam from maildir to spam folder), Bayes with Redis database. I ...
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Spamassassin not respecting my blacklist
I've tried putting my blacklist_from and whitelist_from lines in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs and in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf, but they appear to be ignored.
This is from postfix's master.cf:
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Spamassassin && Exim: redirect spam emails
I want to redirect all email, being marked as SPAM to special mailbox.
Works with Exim4, SpamAssassin Server version 3.3.1 on CentOS 6.5.
Rules from Exim in acl_check_data block:
warn message = ...
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spamassassin does not honour local.cf
I updated my /etc/spamassassin/local.cf spamassassin file to update some score rules. However, even after restarting spamassassin (via service), the new score are not shown in spam emails. In fact, ...
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Error in amavisd.conf -missing curly or bracket
I'm currently trying to setup Spam and Virus Filtering on my CentOS 6.4 machine using SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I've installed all necessary packages (SA, ClamAV and Amavisd-new) and configured them. ...
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SpamAssassin: is there a way to get the urls that were found in blacklists?
Is it possible to make SpamAssassin show the urls that were found in blacklists?
Example: when rules like URIBL_JP_SURBL or URIBL_WS_SURBL matches.
I'm trying to search for a config directive that ...
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incoming mail with low score, but count as spam?
my Centos server currently running spamassassin to filter spam email, it work together with mailscanner, it work fine before but suddently got a problem:
Nov 15 16:12:02 main MailScanner[4079]: ...
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How do I exclude higher MX IP from SpamAssassin?
... higher priority mail exchange relays some emails to lower priority mail exchange and triggers following w/ SpamAssassin.
* -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low
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Blocking and deleting e-mail
I have a server running EXIM and I was wondering if there was a way to block e-mail from going out should a member load over 1000 e-mails in to the queue and then automatically delete them.
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is it possible to completely disable spamassassin using spamassassin user_prefs
I am loading spamassassin user_prefs using user_scores_* sql-functions.
There are many users in my system who don't want to use spamassassin at all. Is there an option to do so?
I know I could set ...
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unable to switch Spamassasin module loading in amavisd-new
I have a default installation of 'amavisd-new' and with it an old SpamAssassin installation version 3.2.5.
Now I have compiled Spamassassin version 3.3.1 from source and installed it at a custom ...
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Moving automatically spam messages to a folder in Postfix
My problem is that I want to automatically to move spam messages to a folder and not sure how.
I have a linux box giving email access. MTA is Postfix, IMAP is Courier. As webmail client I use ...
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why my mails from zimbra server to yahoo goes in to spam folder
I just configured zimbra mail server but mail from my zimbra to yahoo, hotmail etc going into there spam folder any suggestion???
bellow is header part from yahoo of that mail
X-DSPAM-Result: ...
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Why are default spamassassin rules not being applied to emails we generate?
My company uses a standalone spam-assassin install to test marketing emails, however, mail originating from us does not seem to run the full gamut of test.
For example, Spam assassin has a default ...
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Wouldn't setting the DNS server to 127.0.0.1 prevent my system from actually resolving remote hosts? I found this answer
Wouldn't setting the DNS server to 127.0.0.1 prevent my system from actually resolving remote hosts?
My business email server has the DNS set to the ISP given DNS servers. My Spamassassin is giving ...
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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 orders.usa@...
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Same email is evaluated as a spam for one user, and regular for the other
I have mail server, with installed spamassassin to filter spam messages.
Problem I faced is that at 02h first user received email that is treated as a spam (and is was a real spam, moved to spam ...
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Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 message content rejected
A sender from France is trying to send an email to us. Unfortunately his email is being rejected with the message below. I suspect there are some weird characters in the mail content but how can I ...
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How to keep SpamAssassin up to date under CentOS?
I am running CentOS 5.4 with SpamAssassin installed via yum. However the version yum installed was SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 and I am finding that this version has many outdated rules -- including a ...
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Postifx - Dovecot unable to send emails "status=bounced (user unknown)"
My email server was working fine on (Debian Jessie 8.5). My setup uses Postfix 2.11.3, Dovecot 2.2.13, and using Virtual users and Mailboxes (Maildir style). It worked great, until I wanted to ...
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Postfix Email tracing, where is it now
I have searched for an explicit answer to this question and haven't yet found one. I am new to administering Postfix so please forgive my ignorance.
Company A sends out an enormous amount of email on ...
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why spamc keeps getting me 0/0 when I test it?
on my centos 5 I've installed spamassassin and I want to execute it from php using the command line client.
The problem is that each time I run it, I get as result:
0/0
here is how I run it
echo ...
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Postfix + opendkim + spamassin: messages are signed twice
I've got Postfix + spamassassin working already and I'm introducing opendkim.
I'm almost there except outgoing messages are DKIM signed twice, which is not only useless but even makes them DKIM ...
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How can I update spamassassin rules?
I'm running currently SpamAssassin version 3.4.1, so I'm wondering if there are any updates for rules, which are stored in /usr/share/spamassassin?
If there are update, how can I update them?
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Ubuntu 16.04 new mailserver can receive but cannot send emails
I followed a step by step tutorial found on Digitalocean how to setup a mailserver on Ubuntu with Postfix, Dovecot, Mysql (I changed that last one to MariaDB).
The problem I'm facing is that I'm able ...
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How do I tweak spamassassin scores on Ubuntu Server?
I'm wondering what's the right way to tweak scores for Spamassassin's builtin rules.
I know how to edit /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004000/updates_spamassassin_org/ but that doesn't feel right - my ...
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Amavis spamassassin per-user configuration without using a database
Is it possible to configure amavisd-new to let a per-user configuration for spamassassin without using a DBMS?
I have a home directory for each user and would like to store their SA preferences and ...
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How filter catchall email account based on recipient address [closed]
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I am building a chrome plugin that forwards private messages from websites to your email and allows your email replies to be returned through the various sites private message ...
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don't forwards spam mails with spamassassin
I have a mail server running postfix for my youth movement. I use the mailserver to create groups that everyone can mail to so the right persons receive this mail. It's a relay server.
I noticed that ...
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change ehlo name of Amavis
Server: Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
Setup Postfix + Dovecot + Amavis with Mysql for Virtual domains.
I have configured the postfix mailserver successfully. However when I test the Email with mail-tester.com, ...
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qmail limit number of emails sent by user or domain per hour
I'm hosting a mail server for a couple different domains. Recently, the password of one of the users was guessed/hacked and the account was used to send out a couple hundred thousand messages before ...
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Spamassassin not work
I set the threshold to 7.5.
But this mail still can't work thought will auto spam.
Any idea?
Thanks.
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on
X-Spam-Level: *****
X-...
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Testing promotions against spamassassin, scores lower than expected
I recently setup a local installation of spam assassin for testing promotions as we want to catch any spam false positives before we mail our customers (This email is opt-in). We even added several (~...
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Using spamassassin as an external filter for a web forum
Has anyone tried anything like this?
My plan is to do something like this:
When a forum post is submitted, instead of immediately saving it to the database, send an e-mail to a reserved account.
The ...
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postfix + spamassassin check SPF from the email headers
I have postfix + spamassassin.
Spamassassin suppose to check the SPF of the sender, but I received following spam:
[email protected] = this is the email on my postfix
Return-Path: <leonah@betterway....
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unknown domain "pl.d.sender-sib.com" and "gmail.com" under /var/vmail/ on ubuntu server 20.04 running postfix/dovecot/spamassassin/amavis
I am running postfix/dovecot with spamassasin and amavis on Ubuntu server 20.04. I am also using this server as an LEMP Wordpress server. I have configured everything (email wise) according to ...
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How it works content_filter in Postfix using spamassassin and clamav ( filtering order )?
How it works content_filter in case where is used spamassassin and clamav ?
Here is example for one content_filter: http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html
And I see that sendmail command cant use ...
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How to REJECT email using SpamAssassin
Is it possible to reject emails, like it is done in Postfix using header_checks, using SpamAssassin? Normally, the SpamAssassin only adds the spam flags and by default adds the word SPAM in the ...
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spamassassin has false-positives with emails originating from dialup addresses
I'm mostly a happy admin of spamassassin (3.4.0-6) + exim4 (4.84.2), setup for server-side spam-filtering on a Debian/jessie system.
Recently a user reported some false positives.
On closer ...
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Configuration of spamassassin on Fedora 21 with Postfix
I was unable to find any help anywhere on installing spamassassin on a modern Fedora system. All the advice out there is old and doesn't apply - so far as I found anyway. The official documentation ...
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Postfix configuration with Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssasin
I am relatively familiar with Debian and have been trying to setup a mail server with this tutorial.
Now i have gone through all the comments provided on the website to try route out the problem but ...
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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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Web frontend to spamassassin for service providers?
I would like a frontend to spamassassin/amavis (or alike) which can let customers manage their own domains/settings. I do not look for hosted services. I do not mind licensing fees, but I do like open ...
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configure spam assassin to delete all spam above a score domain wide and override individual settings
Okay, so this is my scenario and what I want to try and do. I maintain a Red Hat email server running qmail and spamassassin. I have a domain that has well over 100 email account each with ...
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Most simple, easy to service and update DIY spam/virus filtering SMTP gateway
I run email for several companies, and I want to set up my own SMTP gateway to migrate their domains off hosted spam filtering services.
I wanted an opinion from someone who actually runs email ...
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How to forward mail classified as spam by spamassassin to dspam?
i'm using postfix, amavis-new, clamav and spamassassin.
Now I'm thinking of having dspam together, and training dspam from data collected by spamassassin. Any possible way to forward mail classified ...
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Where can i find explanation of a SpamAssasin scores like SPOOFED_FREEMAIL?
I can define custom scores for SpamAssasin, default one seems to be zero and it makes me wonder if i should raise it, but before doing so, where can i find detailed information on how these particular ...
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Spamassassin not scoring correctly
I have Spamassassin running on a Ubuntu/Plesk server. It was working relatively well until recently but now seems to be letting through random spam messages.
These messages seem to trigger plenty of ...
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RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED in SpamAssassin as it doesn't use local DNS
I'm not sure what I have wrong here. It used to work on Ubuntu 18.04, but doesn't on 20.04 it seems. I have unbound DNS server setup:
unbound-control status
version: 1.9.4
verbosity: 1
threads: 1
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Using both SpamAssassin and postscreen in Postfix
I'm trying to set up an MX server using Postfix, postscreen and SpamAssassin.
According to the SpamAssassin documentation, I have to add -o content_filter to the smtp service in master.cf. This works ...
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