SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.
Questions tagged [spamassassin]
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Spamassassin error: spamd.sock does not exist
I am following a guide from arstechnica to install an email server on my web server. I'm not using Ubuntu as stated in the tutorial but CentOS…

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How to configure SpamAssassin to set Atlassian JIRA notifigations to white list?
I have problem Atlassian JIRA email notifications. These notifications come to deleted by SpamAssassin some reason.
So I need to know how to confirgure SpamAssassin to but these notications to whitelist.
I configured xxx@i4ware.fi email to whitelist…

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Kolab 3 outbound mails spam detection
I installed Kolab on a local server and I need a way to allow it to reject spam mails before they are sent.
One method that I found is to install postfix and spamassassin in another server and forward all mails through it, the spamassassin will…

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add DCC metrics header with MailScanner/SpamAssassin
I have a working MailScanner 4.85.2 installation that is using DCC and reporting spamassassin DCC rule scores.
I'd like to have MailScanner or SpamAssassin add the DCC Metrics to a header. I cannot find any way to configure either to do so and would…

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Postfix/Spamassassin can't determine rDNS too often
I am running a Debian 7.9 server with Postfix 2.9.6 and Spamassassin 3.3.2.
One of the standard checks Spamassassin does, is to check for a rDNS record. I am assuming that it gets that info from the Received: from ... header in the message passed on…

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Gmail (Google Apps) filtering capabilities plus local clamav+spamassassin?
Scenario: My company is going to move all the mail accounts from the current local (and ancient) POP-only provider to gmail, via google apps for work.
Current status: Currently we are using a firewall/proxy/spam filter appliance named nethsecurity…

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spamassassin fails start due to no rules, sa-update does nothing?
After upgrading my server to Debian Jessie, spamassassin no longer starts. Logs and such below:
Invoke spamassassin using systemctl
$ sudo systemctl status spamassassin
● spamassassin.service - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Loaded:…

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Update of SpamAssassin
We're running SA as a filter to Postfix and just completed an update (of SA) from 3.3.2 to 3.4.1. The spamassassin, spamd, and spamc executables have all been verified as the newer version. Additionally, the old symlinks have been repointed to the…

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exim: How to reject spam mail depending on destination domain
Currently, I have exim set up to mark spam mail, and reject spam mail with high scores, using these ACL instructions in the acl_smtp_data ACL:
warn condition = ${if <{$message_size}{500000}{1}{0}}
spam = nobody
add_header =…

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Determine if an e-mail contains a certain number of a specific character
I am hoping to write a SpamAssassin rule that will match if an e-mail contains over n of a specific character in the body of the message. Not necessarily continuous. So for example, if there were ten total asterisks in a message, then match the…

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SpamAssassin with dovecot-antispam training
I'm trying to get dovecot-antispam working with SpamAssassin' sa-learn. This is my Dovecot configuration:
antispam_backend = pipe
antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages
antispam_spam = Junk
antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg =…

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Mails not being received. status=deferred (lost connection with 127.0.0.1
I have a MiaB box with about 30 email boxes. This errror pops up in /var/log/mail.err but with no other information.
WARNING! Error in process_request eval block: /usr/sbin/spampd: write error saving data
How can I trace it and fix it ? I believe…

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Why does adding /etc/mailname prevent amavis from adding X-spam flags?
Whenever I restarted my amavis process I encountered the message:
Starting amavisd: head: cannot open `/etc/mailname' for reading: No such file or directory
amavisd-new.
I decided to add an /etc/mailname file with "mail.mydomain.com", and - alas…

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How to tell if razor is running?
I have a mailserver which is using amavis to do the spam testing (through spamassassin). Now I wanted to use razor and pyzor as well.
I installed them and did the following:
# su - amavis -s /bin/bash
# razor-admin -create
# razor-admin -register…

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How to config user_prefs (SpamAssassin) individually per user in Redis DB?
I'm going to implement mail gateway with FreeBSD 10.1.
So, I installed Postfix, Amavisd, Clamav, Spamassassin, Procmail (for filtering spam from maildir to spam folder), Bayes with Redis database. I have config them to work together. It can work…

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