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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Spamassassin filter systematically produces negative (ham) scores for spam messages
I have problem with lots of spam.
My server setup is VPS with CentOS 6.5 and Dovecot+Postfix+Spamassassin.
Here is source of one of the messages:
Return-Path:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on…

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RDNS_NONE from spamassassin result, when it should be positive
When trying to do a spam test on mail-tester.com, SpamAssassin is giving me RDNS_NONE result.
Can't quite figure out why!
The result I get:
-1.274 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS
This may be a false-positive,…

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How does amavis talk to spamassassin?
I'm going through all the amavisd-new config files, and I can't find anything that tells amavis to talk to spamassassin/spamd to get a spam score. The reason I ask is because I'd like to swap out spamassassin for dspam, and am wondering how amavis…

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Restrict IMAP access for a given account to only one IP address in Exchange 2013
I've created a "spam crawler" account with full access to all mailboxes in an Exchange 2013 environment to get messages in the junk folder to feed the Bayesian filtering running on SpamAssassin in a Linux Anti-spam machine.
This account does not…

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Filter spam emails from being forwarded by exim4
I was studying and searching 2 days about how to configure my exim/spamassassin/clamd configuration.
I have the next situation:
I have an email a@domain.com redirected to a@gmail.com.
Unfortunately, every time a@domain.com receives a spam email,…

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Running SpamAssassin as a Windows Service on Server 2012
I am trying to run spamd.exe file which runs the spamassassin for windows, as a windows service. I tried
sc create spamassassin binPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\JAM Software\SpamAssassin for Windows\spamd.exe" DisplayName="Spam Assassin"…

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Spamassassin: Where quarantined files goes?
I searched a little bit and don't found anything related :(
I need to know where spamassassing send the quarantined files since I need check some data on them.
Any help appreciated.
OS: Ubuntu
Postfix+Amavis+Spamassassin
Thanks

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Which configuration is loaded after sa-update?
I use amavisd-new 2.6.5 and SpamAssassin 3.2.2 (on ubuntu 12.04). I just ran for the first time the sa-update command.
I see that there is new files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003002/updates_spamassassin_org/ .
And a local.cf in this directory.
But…

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SpamAssassin (spampd) ignoring user_prefs
I have an Ubuntu (12.10) server running postfix and SpamAssassin. I've set up spampd following these directions on the SpamAssassin wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratePostfixViaSpampd
However, settings ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs are…

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Can I remove emails from /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject?
I have a lot of emails in /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject. Can I remove these emails or will this lead to some kind of nasty spam problem? Or is this just a history of all the emails that were never received by anyone?

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E-mail address spoofing by spammers - how to block it in Postfix/Spamassassin?
I run a Postfix mail server using Spamassassin as after-queue filter.
It works quite well, but sometimes I get spam from the network that has correct MAIL FROM: address, but also contains, in DATA: section, different forged address something …

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Amavis and SpamAssassin won't mark junk email as spam in second domain
I'm currently setting up amavis and spamassassin with postfix. So far SpamAssassin blocks and bounces Spam. If I set $final_spam_destiny to D_PASS the mail gets through, but the $sa_spam_subject_tag does not get attached and the X-Spam value does…

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Any way I can send Spam to my mail perimeter in a controlled way for testing?
I just set up a Postfix/Procmail/SpamAssassin server but I am not convinced that it is really doing much filtering. I have gotten it to recognize the SpamAssassin special Spam code that produces a really high spam metric, but I've also tried sending…

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Configure spamassassin to mark very similar messages as spam
Users on my server have been receiving spam, consistently, for some time now. I have most of spamassassin's plugins enabled, and I have made sure to enable verbose logging, where I can see that all of the plugins are working.
Why is it, then, that…

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Postfix + procmail - delivery fails because "can't create user output file" - on CentOS 6.2
I verified that my postfix installation / relaying setup worked. Now I am having trouble with procmail. I have it wired to postfix with the following command:
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -f -a "$USER"
I have nothing in my procmail config…

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