Questions tagged [spamassasin]
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How do I block the new TLD's in Postfix?
For the longest time it seemed like what I had in place lately worked fine to block many of these new TLD's like .shop, .online, .tech, etc. All of a sudden it seems like some are getting through and ...
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Spamass-Milter Network Issue
Spamass-milter man says the following about -i network flag: "Ignores messages if the originating IP is in the network(s) listed. The message will be passed through without calling SpamAssassin at all....
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Train spamassassin remotely using a single email account set up for both POP and IMAP
I use multiple devices ( desktop / laptop / iphone / ipad ). I use POP because my desktop has extensive folders that I do not want to upload/share with a server, or take up space on my mobile devices.
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Exim and Spam Filtering
for years I've been using Exim as MTA. I had three strategies to prevent Spam. First of all blacklists. The second was to delay the mail delivery and the third was SpamAssassin.
But this year, more ...
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Postfix server: Mailman email double checked with SpamAssassin
I have set up postfix with spamassassin, and then added mailman for mailing list management, everything on Debian 9 Stretch:
postfix: 3.1.8
mailman: 2.1.13
spamassassin: 3.4.1
The problem is that ...
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How to automatically move mails to SPAM or JUNK folder instead of removing them?
I have problem with amavis-new. amavis-new removes an e-mails tagged as
SPAM are removed instead of leave them tagged by SpamAssassin. Here's
/var/log/mail.log:
Jul 20 20:04:09 cloud-vps opendmarc[...
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Why is postfix-spamassassin-dovecot set up this way?
I have recently added spamassassin to my mailserver, as the blacklists weren't effective enough.
To clarify: I use Postfix as SMTP + Dovecot as LDA, postgrey for greylisting and postfwd for rate-...
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How can I filter out spam mails sent to a specific user with an arbitrary name on postfix?
Recently one of our company's accounts gets a target of spam mails.
This account is already locked, but spam emails never end. Thus, I edit /etc/postfix/header_check file as follows:
/^To:.targetuser@...
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Postfix: How to avoid forwarding spam (Spamassassin + Aliases)
We have a configuration where we have multiple shared IMAP folders (using dovecot) for a given group of people (e.g one for ressort A, one for ressort B). These groups have a mailaddress e.g. a@...
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Block everything except 2 domains in Spam Assassin
One of our spamassassin servers is getting smashed by tons of Russian spam and causing a failure when we're trying to process the emails we care about. I'm trying to reject all email that isn't on 2 ...
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Mail in spam - spf is set
I'm trying to send mails from my domain tickety.be. I'm using sendmail to do this.
My sender is [email protected]. My receiver is also [email protected]. My application is hosted on my Scaleway server. ...
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spamassassin does not honour local.cf
I updated my /etc/spamassassin/local.cf spamassassin file to update some score rules. However, even after restarting spamassassin (via service), the new score are not shown in spam emails. In fact, ...
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How to configure Bind for Spamassassin
I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with following the directions I found here
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CachingNameserver
to set up a working configuration for Spamassassin. I think ...
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Creating .spam folders in each mail user's account
My previous question, Cleaning out mail folders with cron task didn't result in a good enough answer to help me. I have narrowed down the task as follows:
I wish to move mail out of each user's .spam/...
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The mail system : user unknown Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; user unknown
I have a mail system from Postfix, Dovecot, Amavis, Spamassin on a Debian Jessie 8.5.
Imap and pop3 work fine. Smtp port 465 over ssl sends fine, delivery is okay, but port 25 and 587 got the error "...
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How to make spamassassin not check whether an authenticated user is in a blacklist?
I am sure this is a common occurrence: a user (who has an IP that is in a blacklist or two ) is sending mail using his email provides server (with SMTP authentication), then that server is forwarding ...
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Spamassassin: Is it possible to write spam addresses to an external file?
I'm am running Spamassassin v3.3.1 on CentOS.
I'm trying to find a way of writing the "From" header (the from address) for emails which have been identified as spam to an external file.
The idea ...
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block IP address using SpamAssassin
Does using "Trusted Networks" in SpamAssasins local.cf
in a way so you use a ! before a IP address, block the given IP address?
The documentation is not clear regarding this issue.
Does
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Spamassassin spam score and block configuration?
I've searched in the community and Google for this topic. There hasn't been a precise answer.
I wanted to see the spam scores in the mail.log or syslog for Spamassassin running on my Linux server. It ...
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How to set up Mutt and Spamassassim
I've got Mutt to access and read my gmail, but in the inbox, it includes all the mail that the gmail interface hides in two tabs (I think they're called labels) called 'Social' and 'Promotions'.
I'd ...
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Scan outgoing Postfix email for spam with Spamassassin
Is there a way to filter outgoing Postfix email for spam possibly with Spamassassin?
I found this answer about how to do it with Amavis but it's terribly outdated and not very well explained.
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Postfix + SpamAssassin: Incoming mail headers changes
I made a Postfix + SpamAssassin setup following the instructions most websites recommend for this kind os setup. Basically I edited my master.cf to add:
smtp inet n - - - ...
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Dovecot auto folder creation "Unknown setting: mailbox"
First off my dovecot info:
$ dovecot --version
2.0.9
Running on an Amazon Linux AMI EC2 instance.
I've added this in my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%...
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Sendmail: how to create a spam folder automatically?
I have a mailserver(sendmail+dovecot+procmail+spamassassin)
Works fine,for normal mail,for spam i want to create a folder called
"Spam" for every user and put all spam mail there.
I configured ...
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Spamassassin - testing content of an html email with no headers
I'm using Scrivener to write emails for my business. I then use the "compile" feature to export to HTML.
I'm wondering if there is a way to use spam-assassin to do a local test on a folder with ...
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How to trap spam sent from certain top-level domains?
I'm getting a lot of spam from eu TLD
Maybe I could have put a rule set giving a score of say 2.5 or 3 for any mail originating from the .eu TLD; then this score + other factors could have made it ...
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Spamassassin with one rule and multiple files
I was given a task to write a Java program that gets user input as text from a GUI screen, create a Spamassassin rule according to that rule and test the rule against a set of .eml files.
Therefore I ...
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spamassassin adding blank lines when wrapping long headers: how to make it stop?
My email from Kickstarter started showing up in my mailbox corrupted. On investigation, it turns out to because I have these diagnostic headers added in my spamassassin config:
add_header all What-...
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Spamassassin blacklist_to testing
I have some rules in my local.cfg file with some addresses defined as blacklist_to. However, I keep getting spam for these addresses -- or rather any email whatsoever.
How can I test spamassassin ...