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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Qmail bounce using spamassassin
I have a qmail / spamd / clamd server and it’s recently started bouncing emails with a code 553. Spamhaus is sayings it’s an open relay problem on their message to the user. Has anyone come across this problem and how to configure it for qmail as…

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SpamAssassin rule for emails with multiple TO email addresses?
I'm getting pummelled my spammers who are sending emails that don't really score for some reason:
X-Spam-Score: 5
X-Spam-Bar: /
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "brian2022.newbyhost.com",
has NOT identified this…

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unknown domain "pl.d.sender-sib.com" and "gmail.com" under /var/vmail/ on ubuntu server 20.04 running postfix/dovecot/spamassassin/amavis
I am running postfix/dovecot with spamassasin and amavis on Ubuntu server 20.04. I am also using this server as an LEMP Wordpress server. I have configured everything (email wise) according to Linuxbabe.com tutorials located at…

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SMTP relay with FQDN, but SpamAssassin marks FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1 and HELO_NO_DOMAIN
my mail provider (posteo.de) offers an FQDN during the HELO/EHLO exchange (e.g. mout2.posteo.de) – which is seen by policyd-spf (s. below) – but SpamAssassin on a receiving server marks the relay as offering no FQDN or domain:
Feb 2 06:17:10 eden…

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How it works content_filter in Postfix using spamassassin and clamav ( filtering order )?
How it works content_filter in case where is used spamassassin and clamav ?
Here is example for one content_filter: http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html
And I see that sendmail command cant use the same content_filter otherwise it would be a…

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Rule to deal with fake "reply-to" field
It would be impossible to be anymore of a newbie than I am dealing with SA and rules etc..etc.. I am having an issue and have searched high and low on the net and I get some info that sort of seems to answer the question, but to this point nothing…
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sendmail /etc/mail/access REJECT based off of keyword and TO: field
someone placed my email to a weird list and i get 100s of messages each day.
I want to block the word "Unsubscribe" in all body emails address to me@example.com
To:me@example.com error:550 5.1.1 User unknown
Works perfectly but i want to…

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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:…

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Wouldn't setting the DNS server to 127.0.0.1 prevent my system from actually resolving remote hosts? I found this answer
Wouldn't setting the DNS server to 127.0.0.1 prevent my system from actually resolving remote hosts?
My business email server has the DNS set to the ISP given DNS servers. My Spamassassin is giving the message URIBL_BLOCKED. The solution given here…

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"FORGED_RELAY_MUA_TO_MX" how to fix it?
We using exchange 2013 for are long time, but someday I try test my mail server (at https://www.mail-tester.com/) and fond some errors, most of it I fix, but left some.
Most what I do not understanding is error - "FORGED_RELAY_MUA_TO_MX"
I found…

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sa-compile update error with rule compilation
I have an install of Ubuntu 18.04.5 and I'm trying to update the sa-compile (version 3.4.2) package because I have a file server set up on it which uses spamassassin (version 3.4.2). Every time I try to proceed with the update, though, it gives the…

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Postfix/spamassassin not delivering to alias when specifying user executing spamc
I have installed SpamAssassin and configured it to read preferences from sql. I realised that it wasn't reading the user's preferences, and checking the logs I saw that all requests sent by the spamc client were executed as the spamd user.
Here it…

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Compare url link and url text in email body and reject as SPAM
Email body:
... text ...
Is it possible check if text is url in email body, then compare url and text and reject as SPAM if they differ?

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Enabling X-Spam-Report in SpamAssassin
I tried to enable header X-Spam-Report in local.cf:
report_safe 0
Per instructions this should cause adding this header to emails. Yet the header is not there.
How can I fix that?

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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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