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 defers mails - Amavis not running on port 10024
I recently upgraded from Debian Squeeze (6) to Jessie (8) and the mail server seems to be broken. I did not change anything in the Postfix config and everything was working fine before. From what I read on SO and forums, it might be that Amavis is…

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Amavis decide_mail_destiny crash
After upgrading to FreeBSD 12 I'm experiencing issues with amavis from time to time.
The reason for the crash in unclear for now.
A simple kill -9 $amavispid && service amavids start does the trick but after some hours everything starts over…

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How to interpret the debug output from Amavis->Spamassassin?
Could please someone explain how Spamassassin build the following strings:
Oct 17 14:00:30 server amavis[29497]: (29497-02) SA dbg: uridnsbl: domain amazonaws.com in skip list, host sns.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
Oct 17 14:00:30 server…

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Amavis won't start on systemctl
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 that I have installed ISPConfig 3 on. I've done this same install multiple times with no problems. For some reason this time Amavis won't start at all using init scripts.
If I run systemctl restart amavis it…

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Postfix/Amavis not filtering spam for entries in second domain
My postfix installation is working correctly (delivery via dovecot, spam filtering via amavis - spamassasin).
I have some aliases in virtual, eg:
info@mydomain2.com johnDoe
However, for the emails that match an entry in virtual, amavis is not…

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Configure Amavis with custom spamassassin rules
How can I configure Amavis to apply specific rules from SpamAssassin, like
score MISSING_SUBJECT 30
from Blocking empty subject line emails from being sent or received?
I run Amavisd-new 2.11.0, including the libraries from Spamassassin…

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Unable to connect postfix to amavisd in FreeBSD-11 jail
Attempting to send a message through Postfix on a jailed instance of FreeBSD-11 results in the following error when amavisd is configured:
/usr/local/sbin/amavisd[47180]: (!)DENIED ACCESS from IP 127.0.32.1, policy bank ''
The lo interface for the…

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Spam from my Debian Stretch server - postfix
I have a huge problem with my Debian Stretch installation. Out of the blue one client email address started sending a huge amounts o spam.
My server uses standard configuration. I installed it with
ISPConfig, Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd,…

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SA tagging logwatch email as spam
Centos7
Posftfix 3.2.2
Amavisd 2.11.0
spamassassin-3.4.0
I have a logwatch output that gets mailed to me daily. Spamassassin is scoring it high enough as exceed my threshold for whacking it as spam.
While this is not good, I'm concerned I have…

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Debian Jessie, Postfix + amavisd-new + spamassassin: not sure if Bayes works
Dear polite people in this forum,
I've recently migrated to a new mailserver. As the hardware "age gap" was too large, it would be difficult to simply upgrade from Debian Squeeze to Jessie at the same time (and it would possibly not solve my problem…

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Horde Web-Mail classified as UBE
I run a postfix, amavis-new, dovecot setup for mail service on my LAN, which works nicely for a long time. I recently added a horde imp server in my DMZ - actually behind IPv4 NAT using port forwarding. Which also works quite nice according to my…

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Postfix with Amavis returns "name=localhost type=A: Host not found" in mail.log
Full error:
Dec 23 19:44:31 example.com postfix/pickup[5589]: 39332276875: uid=0 from=
Dec 23 19:44:31 example.com postfix/cleanup[5605]: 39332276875: message-id=<20161223194431.39332276875@example.com>
Dec 23 19:44:31 example.com…

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AMaViS Quarantine Emails Bouncing
I'm at my wits end here. I've set up AMaViS and ClamAV and linked them in to Postfix. Everything seems to be working fine. Except the quarantine emails are not being delivered and I can't work out why.
If I use a test file to send a GTUBE/Eicar…

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/usr/sbin/amavisd-new - why is pcmd/regex not working for this command in csf.pignore?
For some reason I cannot get CSF's LFD (/etc/csf/csf.pignore) to ignore amavisd-new running via perl. The daemon runs via /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (some mode) however it seems that when I use regex based pcmd:, LFD won't ignore it. Is…

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amavisd-new freezes: "Address already in use"
I have a mail server setup running on my Debian Jessie VPS which includes postfix, amavisd-new, SpamAssassin and a few other services.
All in all it seems my setup works pretty well and handles incoming mails correctly, however from time to time…

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