Amavis is an open source content filter for electronic mail, implementing mail message transfer, decoding, some processing and checking, and interfacing with external content filters to provide protection against spam, viruses and other malware. It can be considered an interface between a mailer (MTA, Mail Transfer Agent) and one or more content filters.
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Mail server - Amavis with 7zip
After 1,5 year with working mail server on Ubuntu 14.04 I've experienced strange amavis logs listed below: http://pastebin.com/RwbNw78f
Mail server is: Postfix + Dovecot + MySQL + Amavis + ClamAV + SpamAssasin deployed with recipe…

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Block unauthorised users from sending mail
I am using ubuntu server with postfix, ispconfig as control panel.
I am using a mail relay server from mailjet. I am getting notification from them like
Emails sent from this sender will not be sent until you validate this
address in your…

Joshi
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Excessive emails are going into spam folder
Spam scores are above 5 (my threshold)!
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.924 tagged_above=-9999 required=5
tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02=0.805,
HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, NO_RECEIVED=-0.001, NO_RELAYS=-0.001,
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Zimbra 8.6 sends some mail into black hole
I have a Zimbra installation running on Centos 6.6:
Release 8.6.0_GA_1153.RHEL6_64_20141215151155 RHEL6_64 FOSS edition.
I have one account on the server that receives mail forwarded from another server which is derived from a ticketing system and…

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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 baesian data on their ~/.spamassassin dir.

stenio
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lots of email from one user, probably spam
I'm getting a continuous flow of messages in the mail.log file of our postfix mail server. Here is a santisied sample:
postfix/qmgr[7883]: 03DF631E8F: from=, size=1021, nrcpt=15 (queue active)
Jan 18 16:16:30 fadmin3…

mark
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amavis log email hash
I want to log a hash value of all emails handled by my mail-server. I found in amavis README.customize.gz the following line:
The substitution text for the following simple macros is built-in:
[...]
- to be used in forming a notification mail body…

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is there a way to discard all mail sent to a user
I started to get some spam mails to a unique user, and that user does not exist in our system.
so I want that all mail for that nonexistent user gets discard.
is this possible?
[update]
my scenario is like this:
we have a few defined users.
we have…

armandfp
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How do I configure amavisd-new to assume all mail is not outgoing?
I am splitting up my postfix mail server into separate instances - outgoing and incoming. Both mail servers handle mail for multiple domains using a sql database and the virtual_mailbox_domain lookup.
The incoming mail server is setup with…

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How to modify admin_maps_by_ccat amavisd settings for Zimbra OSE 8.5?
I'm trying to apply this answer to my zimbra installation as I'm getting a postmaster email every time I send an encrypted email.
I tried adding
$admin_maps_by_ccat{+CC_UNCHECKED} = undef; to /opt/zimbra/conf/amavisd.conf and zmamavisdctl stop;…

Skyline
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Amavis sending Paypal payment emails to postmaster. Are they classified as spam/virus?
Some days ago i was reading some docs about amavis and decided to fine tune its configuration. As i'm new to amavis i probably setted some statements in the wrong way so last days i've been recieving emails from paypal payments to postmaster mail…

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Alert Postfix sender when outbound email is not delivered due to amavisd-new checks
I'm running Postfix 2.11 together with amavisd-new which works fine with spamassassin and clamav to prevent inbound/outbound spam and virus traffic.
Right now i'm looking for a way to alert users when outbound email is not delivered - rejected,…

peris
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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 as spam by spamassassin to dspam either
directly…

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CLAMAV on Centos Mail Server: Can't connect to UNIX socket clamd.sock
In my Centos 6.4 server, I am using Postfix and Dovecot with Amavis/ClamAV filter. Lately I have been trying to solve my spam problem(only occurs in Gmail and Hotmail) so I've been tailing logs.
Though I can send and receive e-mails, I have…

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centos 6.4 amavis-new, clamav not function
i install on centos 6.4 amavis-new and clamav
/etc/clamd.d/amavisd
# cat amavisd.conf
# Use system logger.
LogSyslog yes
# Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog'
# for facility names.
LogFacility LOG_MAIL
# This option…

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