Apache SpamAssassin is a free and open source mail filter written in Perl
Questions tagged [spamassassin]
34 questions
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How to integrate Thunderbird with SpamAssassin running on the server?
I'm trying to integrate SpamAssassin running on a server with Thunderbird. Basically I need to be able to select several emails in Thunderbird and send them back to SpamAssassin for training, either as spam or ham.
I tried several approaches:…
haimg
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All name servers should resolve to IP addresses
when i check my domain for spam
in https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/check?domain=mydomain.com
i am getting error
All name servers should resolve to IP addresses.
Name servers that don't resolve reliably greatly reduce your domain's…
user3797053
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Reject forged emails with spamassassin from own email address
Lately I've been receiving ~10 emails per day from myself. It's my own domain hosted on my own server (at home). I'm running openpanel and spamassassin. How can I configure spamassassin to block such emails? (Sent to myself).
The content of the mail…
Ortix92
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How to stop demonize version of spamd
Recently I've been using the daemon version of spamassassin (spamd) in Centos.
In some circumstances I need to stop the daemon. What is the best way to do that?
I'm used to stopping the mailserver first and then issuing kill -15 spamd but I don't…
debianita
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SpamAssassin gives the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12 label although we don't send images in emails
So we did some SPAM tests on the emails we're sending, and SpamAssassin gives the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12 label to this email.
The description says This may indicate a message using an image instead of words in order to sidestep text-based…
Petruza
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Add custom SpamAssassin rules to e-mail header
Is there a way to configure SpamAssassin to show any custom rules that an e-mail matches in the incoming headers, as the built-in rules do?
For example, I have the following:
Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 4.1 required)
pts rule name …
dub stylee
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How to train SpamAssassin during continuous operation?
What's the best way to train SpamAssassin during continuous operation? I have a script running that calls sa-learn everytime a user moves an email in or out of the Spam folder on my Dovecot IMAP server. However, this happens 99% of the time when a…
arnuschky
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How do I stop SpamAssassin cron job from mailing me errors?
I have a cron job for SpamAssassin to update, but it keeps sending me the errors. How can I stop the SpamAssasin job from emailing me?
This is the email that I get:
Subject: Cron /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron 2>&1 | tee -a…
Chloe
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spamassassin - filtering specific Cyrillic/Russian UTF-8 letters (base64 encoded)
I am having some trouble setting up my personal spamassassin rules. My problem: I get a lot of Russian spam with Cyrillic letters, many in UTF-8. Because of that, searching for a charset is not sufficient. So I want to search a few typical Russian…
nox
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How to reliably configure custom Spamassassin rules with Amavisd (on Ubuntu)
I've used Amavisd with Spamassassin for years... my configuration used to 'work' (though it may never have been "right") now, it appears as if /etc/spamassassin/local.cf configuration is ignored when spamassassin functionality is invoked by…
aSteve
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"Procmail" component of getmail - spamassassin - procmail - mu4e
I'm a newbie trying to work out the following mail solution on a laptop where I'm the only user:
getmail - spamassassin - procmail - mu4e (an emacs mail program)
Right now I'm succeeding at
getmail - mu4e
With my former…
Steven Arntson
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How to block spam email by subject on Zimbra server
How can I block spam email by subject?
I tried following this blog post, but it doesn't work.
It uses custom_header_checks and define some parameters, I did try such parameters and restart the services but it still doesn't works.
Are there any other…
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Does anybody know why the `From` lines are truncated by recent versions of Thunderbird after August 7th? My SpamAssassin breaks with this new behavior
Thunderbird stores its mails in a kind of mbox file. The beginning of a mail is marked by a line starting with From , e. g. "From" and a space in the beginning of the line.
Until August 7th these lines looked like this:
From - Wed Aug 7 14:45:02…
Dieter
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Spamassassin can't start
I have installed spamassassin (3.4.6-1) on Debian bullseye armel.
When I try to start it with sudo systemctl start spamassassin:
Job for spamassassin.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status spamassassin.service" and…
user1798640
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SpamAssasin TLD blocking
I have configured spamassasin in my hosting to block some spammer TLDs.
The blacklist email is just as…
NoSignal
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