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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Spamassassin ignores spam in multi-part email
Sometimes my email server gets multi-part emails where the embedded email is detected as spam, but the containing email gets a score of 0. So the message is marked as SPAM but not moved to the quarantine folder, still delivered to the recipient.…

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Amavis + Monit: "Error receiving data from the mailserver -- Resource temporarily unavailable "
Good morning folks,
I'm often getting these monit alerts, about once or twice a day:
Connection failed Service amavisd
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:04:58
Action: restart
Host: (hidden).com
Description: failed protocol test [SMTP] at [localhost]:10024…

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Why does status says it's dead and subsys locked, but it still running without issue?
Whenever I start Amavisd, the reports starting OK, but a status check says it's dead.
$ service amavisd start
Starting amavisd: [ OK ]
$ service amavisd status
amavisd dead but subsys locked
But Amavisd…

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Amavis Configuration on Ubuntu 20.04 / Port 10025 already in use
i try to configure amavis on my ubuntu 20.04 with working postfix and kopano.
Postfix crashes with the following error:
Jan 10 11:23:52 mail postfix/postfix-script[143585]: fatal: cannot execute /usr/sbin/postconf!
Jan 10 11:24:32 mail…

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Where is the definitive home for amavisd-new-2.12?
I have amavis installed from epel, and it reports
# systemctl status amavisd
● amavisd.service - Amavis mail content checker
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running)…

philolegein
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Amavis and Spamassassin error with '.pre' files (using iRedMail)
I installed iRedMail which would install amavis and spamassassin. When I test sending and receiving email, I have an error in the /var/log/mail.log, I see this line of error:
postfix/amavis/smtp[14582]: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10026:…

Mahsa
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xlsx extension file blocked in zimbra
So the issue is that i have been trying to send a mail from my server with xlsx file extension attachment but zimbra rejects the mail giving a message content is band
BANNED CONTENTS ALERT
Our content checker found
banned name:…

ram khanal
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AMAVIS discarding emails instead of tagging them or moving them to quarantine
I'm seeing many emails being discarded from my system.
I'm per-user policies and have the following options set:
spam_tag_level = -9999
spam_tag2_level = 7 (roughly - it changes on a per-user basis)
spam_tag3_level = 25
spam_kill_level =…

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Postfix: How to malware & spam scan outgoing SMTP SASL auth users?
Although I have found two answers to this, I can't work out how to actually implement them, and at least one of them doesn't actually answer the question. So if anyone has any experience to share I'd be very grateful.
I have a server (Ubuntu 18.04)…

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multipart/mixed content type and boundary refused by Amavis
I'm writing a Ruby script that send SMTP email. The email is divided onto 3 parts: headers, body and attachment. Unfortunatly, I'm struggling to satisfy an Amavis requirement: properly writing the encapsulation boundary.
This header, added by…

Sumak
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Postfix checks the message in Amavis even for non-existent mailboxes
Here is my problem:
My email address is for example something1@domain.com.
Everything is ok when Postfix receives email for address something1@domain.com.
But spammers often use random mailboxes, for example something5644343@domain.com. Postfix…

djlj
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Setting UMask in systemd override.conf is ignored
I'm using amavisd on fedora33 and trying to change the file permissions on the socket it creates so nagios and nrpe can read the file in the amavis group.
The file permissions currently are as such:
# ls -l /run/amavisd/amavisd.sock
srwxr-x--- 1…

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SpamAssassin doesn't flag any e-mails; no spam headers in e-mail
We use Amavis between Postfix and Spamassassin. Emails that contain GTUBE pass clean through Amavis even though they should be marked with their corresponding headers.
Sep 24 20:11:09 mail amavis[955]: (00955-01) Passed CLEAN {AcceptedInbound},…

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SOLVED: Amavis and dkim signature on incoming mails: header.s ignored
I am a little bit confused with how amavis process incoming mails. The Postfix service on my Zimbra server is configured to sign outgoing mails. And it works like a charm.
Problem is mails sent to internal users (and only them, no issue with…

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amavisd-new: fail (bad RSA signature)
After installing IredMail on my Debian 9 server, I followed this tutorial to configure DKIM Add new domain to iRedmail - with DKIM signature.
After following all the steps and running the amavisd-new testkeys command I get the following…

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