SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.
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What's wrong with this SpamAssassin rule?
body LOCAL_SHORT_BODY /^.{2,120}$/
score LOCAL_SHORT_BODY 0.4
describe LOCAL_SHORT_BODY Short body
I included this in my local.cf, and gave it a low score as it's not really a great indicator of spam on its own, but in conjunction with other rules…

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Using spamassassin as an external filter for a web forum
Has anyone tried anything like this?
My plan is to do something like this:
When a forum post is submitted, instead of immediately saving it to the database, send an e-mail to a reserved account.
The e-mail account is configured to use procmail and…

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Postfix sendmail sets original recipient
I have a postfix + dovecot with a spamassassin doing some content filtering on the postfix side. The problem is that with a recent update the originally available sendmail binary was replaced with the sendmail.postfix binary. Which seems to work…

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Exim and spamassassin custom rule
i have exim and spamassassin (used by exiscan) installed and running, but i want to add custom rule which will add some points to emails if "to" and "envelope-to" are not identical. I added following rules to local.cf:
header EXIM_SENDER_SWAP …

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SpamAssassin sending legit emails to spam, despite sender being whitelist
I can not for the life of me figure out why emails from a "white-listed" sender are still getting very high scores from SpamAssassin and not being delivered.
The email headers are:
From orders.usa@theirsite.com Wed Apr 25 10:52:26…

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Spamassassin disable spam information raports
I use SAWin32 (AKA SpamAssassin for Win32) with Microsoft Exchange 2000.
My users are receiving the following information concerning incoming messages that may be spam:
"This mail is probably spam. The original message
has been attached intact in…

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In Exim, is RBL spam rejected prior to being scanned by SpamAssassin?
I've recently been battling spam issues on our mail server. One account in particular was getting hammered with incoming spam. SpamAssassin's memory use is one of our concerns.
What I've done is enable RBLs in Exim. I now see many rejection notices…

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spamassassin via procmail: .procmailrc moves spam messages, but /etc/procmailrc doesn't
I am trying this example to set up spamassassin via procmail globally. It successfully adds the X-Spam headers, but it does not move messages to the spam mboxes.
However, using this example locally, at each user's .procmailrc file, does work…

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Spamassassin filter mail with attachment
I would like to add a spamassassin rule based on if a message coming from a particular sender has an attachment or not. Is there a way to filter messages from a certain sender so that mails without attachment get a low score but mails with…

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Moving spam from filter to mail server
I was wondering if its possible to take messages quarantined by a Spamassassin box and move it to the users spam folder residing on an email server. In my case I would want to move mail from an Untangle box to my Zimbra ZCS box.
I was thinking some…

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OS X Server script to archive (or empty) a users mailbox every morning
I have a requirement (SpamAssassin 'training') to archive (or delete) two user's (users are junkmail and notjunkmail) inboxes at a given time every day if there is anything in them.
Can anyone help me with a script to do such a thing and where to…

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Lower SpamAssassin scores when certificate verification fails
I’ve noticed that I’m getting junk mail from Norwegian companies that send from servers that Postfix says failed certificate verification. Is it possible to give these messages a lower spam score with SpamAssassin?
My mail is delivered locally by…

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Postfix :: redirect spam mail to different mx transport?
Postfix with spamassassin. Acts as an anti-spam gateway for a domain. Scans and then relays.
I want to take mail that has been tagged as spam by spamassassin, and send it to a different mail server than non-spam. Both servers will accept mail for…

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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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How to solve the problem RCVD_BY_IP "Received by mail server with no name"
I'm using MailingCheck to calculate the spam score of my e-mail messages.
There is one problem bugging me that i don't know how to solve.
RCVD_BY_IP "Received by mail server with no name"
It probably has something to do with the mail server i'm…

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