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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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Monit and amavis

I have noticed that occasionally amavis is not running. I thought monit was watching the process, however it doesn't seem to warn me or fix it. My monitrc entry looks like this and I can confirm that starting/stopping the process with monit…
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Ubuntu server not using localhost IP for internal communication

I am using Ubuntu Server 13.04 on my mail system. I am just setting the Postfix and Amavis. In every config for communication I am using 127.0.0.1 as IP address to pass mails to amavis. When I look to the logs its still trying to connect to Amavis…
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Postfix + Amavisd-new as smtp-proxy (pre-queue) for inbound only, postqueue for outbound?

I am in the planning phase of building a mailserver with the following requirements relevant to my question: Use postfix, virtual users (two virtual domains) Must filter pre-queue to reject message before it's delivered, avoiding issues with…
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How do I tell Postfix to relax smtpd_sender_restrictions?

If I connect to Postfix on my server with a mail client on port 143 with SSL then mail sent via this connection from a virtual domain passes the smtpd_sender_restrictions and thus enables the filter that routes it to amavis to have its DKIM…
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Dedicated TMP and AMAVIS

I perfectly configured my server and now I made 2 stupid mistakes, I updated perl along with it's dependencies and I made a dedicated TMP dir and included it in fstab to prevent code execution with a permission of 1777, now amavis shut down and it's…
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SA with or without amavis-new - whats faster?

Currently i have working setup of postfix with virtual users which uses amavis (with SA and clamav) to filter messages. The problem is, i need to allow every user to be able to adjust their SA settings. So i need to store SA settings in a database.…
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How to disable local user lookup in amavis-new?

I have amavis-new installed with iRedMail package. Everything works OK for mails sent directly to existing user accounts. But I would like to use catch-all for domains and aliases. The problem is that amavis LDAP queries does not take aliases and…
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Perl / BerkelyDB @INC problems trying to install Amavisd-new (CentOS)

I'm trying to follow this guide here to install Amavis, SpamAssassin + ClamAV... http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd Things mostly went well but Amavisd would not start... # service amavisd start Starting Mail Virus Scanner (amavisd): ERROR:…
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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. Mailscanner + SpamAssassin? amavisd-new + SpamAssassin? (Note:…
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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 SA. To clearify the problem: I don't want SA to…
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Postfix & amavis on a dedicated server

I have 3 servers: server 1 and 2 are listed as mx servers for different domains and server 3 is for amavis/spamd/clamd filtering for both server 1 & 2. My plan is to have 'first pass' postfix listen on ports 587 and 25 on servers 1/2 and pass mail…
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amavisd-new process "jamming"

I have a mailfilter system based on that described at: http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/ (Debian Lenny, postfix / amavisd-new / spamassassin / policy-weightd, etc.) This system has been running flawless for us for the past few years (on Etch…
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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 spamassassin, training the bayesian filter for it. A good…
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Do not send "SPAM FROM LOCAL" messages for mails relayed to spam_lovers

I have setup amavis as follows: $policy_bank{'ORIGINATING'} = { # mail originating from our users originating => 1, # indicates our client, introduced in amavisd-new-2.5.0 ... spam_admin_maps => ["spamalert\@$mydomain"], # warn of spam from…
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How do I make changes to spamassassin under zimbra?

We are running a zimbra installation which uses spamassassin to filter mail. I have not installed this myself so I am not completely sure if this is a plain vanilla installation. The zimbra installation is located in /opt/zimbra/. I am trying to…
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