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The setting 0 will pretty much let everything through and the setting 5 will pretty much let very little through. After testing a header (X-Spam-Status:) is marked with a number ranging from 0-5. Spamassassin let’s this mail in and then compares it against various tests. Often this email is advertising various enhancement drugs, porn, or someone from South Africa saying they are the benefactor of a bajillionaire and have picked YOU as their heir (just give them your bank account number). That is what SPAM is – email you receive (for whatever reason) that you don’t want. The advertisements, the offers for credit cards…those wasted resources that always get tossed without reading. You can think of SPAM as all of those useless flyers you get in the mail. This article will assume you already have Postfix up and running.īefore we get into the dirty bits of the installation, I thought it would be wise to describe SPAM and how SPAM is scored with Spamassassin. Like the previous article, this installation will be done on a Ubuntu Server 10.04 release.

Spamassassin local cf how to#

And in this article I am going to show you how to add Spamassassin to your already working Postfix mail server.

Spamassassin local cf install#

It’s reliable, trustworthy, and simple to install and configure.

Spamassassin uses numbers tests (both local and on line) to determine if a mail is SPAM or HAM (not SPAM). But how do you stop it? The best way? Spamassassin. The last thing you need is to be serving all your users plate after plate of SPAM delight. The problem is, if you have a mail server, you can almost guarantee that SPAM will find its way in (and out if your not careful). But wait – who WANTS to serve up SPAM? No one (at least no one with good intentions). That mail server will work so well it’ll server up all the email and SPAM you want. After following that article you should have a working, reliable mail server. systemctl restart postfix.In my last article I introduced you to the installation and configuration of a Postfix mail server (see “ Install and configure a Postfix mail server“). usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f $įor the changes to take effect, restart Postfix. rewrite_header Subject ***** SPAM _SCORE_ *****Įdit /etc/postfix/master.cf and add a content filter to your SMTP server. Now we will edit /etc/spamassassin/local.cf to set up some anti-spam rules. OPTIONS='-create-prefs -max-children 5 -username spamd -helper-home-dir /home/spamd/ -s /home/spamd/spamd.log' adduser spamd -disabled-loginĮdit the configuration settings at /etc/default/spamassassin. apt-get install spamassassin spamcĪdd a Spamassassin user.

Verify the server's outbound port status.

The following instructions are for using Spamassassin with Postfix.

Before installing Spamassassin, you need to install and configure a mail transfer agent such as Postfix on your virtual private server.It will save your mailbox from much unwanted spam emails.

Spamassassin local cf free#

Spamassassin is a free and open-source mail filter written in Perl that is used to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text.