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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Postfix drops all spam, but shouldn't do this
i'm using a mailserver setup with postfix, amavis and spamassassin.
Some parts of my current configuration (Ubuntu 12.04.2):
/etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults
$sa_spam_subject_tag = '***SPAM*** ';
$sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0;
$sa_tag2_level_deflt…

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Postfix : intercept outgoing email by sender with amavis or custom filter?
we have some outgoing mail server with latest postfix and amavis.
I would need to intercept some outgoing email for some given senders and forward them to a "logging" account + the regular receivers.
From what I read looks like this job could be…

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amavis doesn't quarantine all spam mails
I'm trying to create a special mail account to collect all incoming spam with the purpose to later on be able to train the SA more easily for the whole domain.
We're using Zimbra, but as far as I can see the problem is not zimbra related, because…

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Postfix Mail Filter Stops Delivering Mail
I have an internet facing postfix mail filter (debian lenny) that sits in front of all our other mailservers on our network, and scans our mail using amavisd-new, clamav, spamassassin, and policy-weightd.
This server was set up and configured using…

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Amavisd-new cannot start - missing Unix::Syslog (CentOS)
I followed the basic instructions here for installing amavisd, spamassassin +
clamav...
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd
I get the following error when trying to start amavisd...
# service amavisd start
Starting Mail Virus Scanner (amavisd):…

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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.
Emails for unknown users are being considered as…

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iRedMail problem with amavis, clamav and freshclam
I have installed iRedMail on Centos and have problem with starting freshclam (after service freshclam start system says that freshclam is already started but service freshclam status says that freshclam is stopped). Freshclam log file is…

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Amavis + Postfix configuration problem
Hello we're inherited one server based on Gentoo + Postfix + Amavis-new + Maildrop
$ cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
$ equery list
mail-mta/postfix-2.5.5
mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.4
mail-filter/amavisd-new-2.5.2
Some…

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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 source. Not sure how many e-mails pass our…

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setting rpmforge repository for Linux (RHEL)
I had a Linux centos(5.5) machine, on this i had deployed amavisd (with clamav and spamassassin).
Referred these:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
Now I have a linux RHEL machine, details…

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Auto Bcc using amavis
I have installed amavisd-new ,spamassissin , postfix server. I want to implement the autobcc feature using amavisd. so please help me.
Thanks in advance...
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Moving Spam to Spam folder ( postfix-courier imap, spamassassin)
I've a mail server that supports virtual-users on mysql with ( courier-imap , postfix , spamassassin, amavis)
For every new user my server creats dirs like (inbox, drafts, sent, trash)
In /home/vmail/username
First iwant the server automatically…
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Amavis: No decoder for .F/No ext program for .F, tried: unfreeze, freeze -d, melt, fcat
I am using amavis for my Debian 11 mailserver. I managed to set almost all configs correct but there is a problem scanning .F files because no decoder is found.
Starting amavis tells me:
Jun 17 10:31:30 mail amavis[709]: Net::Server: Group Not…

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Most Incoming Emails are not being processed by SpamAssassin
Incoming emails are mostly unchecked by SpamAssassin, although we can see in the headers that they were checked with Amavisd-new for viruses.
We've tried many things to fix it, including asking chatGPT for help, but it gave us lots to check but…

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How to whitelist our own outgoing emails from being blocked in amavis/spamassassin using Spamhaus' block lists?
Just after we implemented spam filtering on our Postfix server using spamassassin-dqs through amavisd-new we drastically reduced received spam, but to our surprise our own outgoing e-mails are being blocked as well. Our server runs on a AWS EC2…

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