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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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Debugging spamassassin with postfix

I am trying to setup spamassassin milter on my postfix mail server. SpamAssassin Server version 3.4.1 running on Perl 5.20.2 with SSL support (IO::Socket::SSL 2.019) with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.064) Postfix mail_version = 2.11.3 When…
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spamassassin tries to use /nonexistent even though its user has a valid home directory

I have a spamassassin daemon used by exim on a FreeBSD 9.3 System that tries to use /nonexistent for its temp files and bayes-filter storage. Passing the username or a home directory via the daemons flags in /etc/rc.conf does nothing to change this…
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Email, forwarded by procmail, rejected by Gmail

EDIT Let's ignore for a while all that I have written below and refrase the question: If you have your own domain name and you want to get email for that domain into your Gmail inbox (not Google Apps), how would YOU do it? Preferably SMTP only,…
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Dealing with spam flood in Postfix + Amavis

I run a mail server for several thousand users. It uses Postfix + Amavis (with SpamAssassin + Clam). Most of the time it's a pretty happy setup, but from time to time we receive a flood of virus/phising emails, for example from field saying…
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Spamassassin rule to compare return-path and from fields

Recently I noticed a recurring pattern in some of the spams I get. The return-path and from headers always have the same structure. Let me explain with an example: Return-path: From:…
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Spamassassin filter based on destination domain

I am trying to configure my SpamAssassin (running in combo with amavisd) in order to lower the spam score limit assigned to emails directed to a specific domain (lower required_score only for incoming mail where the RCPT TO reads *@example.com). Is…
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Spamassassin Systemd Error

I am getting an error when trying to start spamassassin (for my postfix server). I think this error might be related to systemd as it worked before I installed the patch (I think). I followed the ArsTechnica guide on setting up an e-mail server. I…
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Spamassassin is conflicting with postifx

I am trying to install spamassassin. But it seems to be conflicting with POSTFIX. When I restart spamassassin I get the following error code: /usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: file /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 40: bad field count postfix/postfix-script:…
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URIBL_BLOCKED despite caching nameserver

I run a mail server for two people, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have Spamassassin running via Amavis/Postfix. In many messages, I am getting URIBL_BLOCKED in the X-Spam-Status headers, which indicates that the request is coming from a source that makes too…
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SpamAssassin coming back with zero scores

When I run tests (spamassassin -t) on obvious spam, I get results like this: Content analysis details: (2.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ----------------------…
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SpamAssassin - ready to give up - extremely unreliable, marking spam as ham

I run a VPS, and I have to say that by far, getting SpamAssassin working right has been the most frustrating thing of all. It keeps missing spam mails and I see autolearn=ham in the header, yet when I find the message in /var/vmail on the server and…
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Spamassassin internal DNS resolution?

Short Version: Is it possible to configure spamassassin to perform its own recursive DNS lookups instead of using the server specified by the OS? Long Version: I've got a collection of dedicated machines at RackSpace running mail services, but I've…
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Spamassassin? update channels?

I know this was asked here: but things seem to have changed. It appears that the old SARE rules are listed as broken The recommended SOUGHT channels seem to be down and DNS is broken for sought.rules.yerp.org SO Is there a channel that does work?…
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Quarantined mail retrieval from SpamAssassin/ClamAV/Postfix

We run a mail relay service in a multi tenant deployment for clients. We started doing this because commercially available relay services were silly money when compared to the costs of building one ourselves. The only thing we have lost in moving to…
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What is a valid target for Spam Assassin's sa-learn?

I'd like to train my Spam Assassin with some spam that it's missed, however I'm confused. With sa-learn I could target: raw message text-message (body) html (body) What one of those options is this best. I'd like to pull the message right out of…
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