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Apache SpamAssassin is a free and open source mail filter written in Perl

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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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SpamAssassin not detect rule if iso file attached

Recently I've been getting a lot of spam emails with the DHL_Tracking,pdf.iso file attached. I checked the rules saved in local.cf, there is no problem. But I noticed that SpamAssassin is not able to detect some emails. I removed all the rules from…
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Prevent use of procmailrc by some users

We have an e-mail server running Postfix (SMTP) and Dovecot (POP/IMAP) on Debian 10. Users cannot log directly on it (SSH), but have access to their homes through NFS. We would like to use Procmail to sort messages tagged as spam by SpamAssassin…
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How do I upgrade SpamAssassin?

When I try to update SpamAssassin, it says it has the latest version. # cpanm Mail::SpamAssassin Mail::SpamAssassin is up to date. (3.004004) However, the latest version says it is 3.4.4. https://metacpan.org/release/Mail-SpamAssassin How do I…
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Mail getting stuck in queueu with Postfix/Spamassassin

Happy Star Wars day everyone. I'm having trouble with a fresh postfix + spamassassin + dovecot +amavis install on Debian Stretch. Incoming mail is hung up in the queue with a "mail transport unavailable" error, until I manually run "postsuper -r…
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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…
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