I need to clean up the .spamassassin directory for all the accounts on the server. The Bayes files are getting too big and causing mail handling issues.
How would I do that?
I assume this won't work - and don't want to try it until I hear a little feedback:
rm -f /home/*/.spamassassin/*bayes*
Basically, I need a command that will do what the above command looks like it would do - I just don't think the wildcards will work in that manner, and don't want to try it for fear of deleting items outside of the .spamassassin directory.
I'm running CentOS 5.3.x with cPanel/WHM - if it matters...
And feel free to suggest other spam blocking software - but we've gotten rather good at tweaking SA to get the job done. Just this annoyance of the bayes files growing continuously is a pain sometimes...
is there any mailscanner control panel available for cpanel? we have install mailscanner but cpanel user can play with whitelist, or disable and enable it
I am looking into implementing an antivirus/spam relay server using Postfix + MailScanner + SpamAssassin. Does anyone here have experience with this kind of solution?
What kind of rough performance in messages/hour or messages/day could I expect from a server like this:
PowerEdge 2950 2x QuadCore Xeon E5320 (1.8GHz) 8GB RAM 4x 146GB 15,000rpm SAS in RAID 10
I've downloaded and installed MailScanner using: [url]
Now.. can anyone tell me a good "how to" to configure MailScanner to avoid a resource hog and to ensure email can work ok and stop incoming spam as well?
Recently installed MailScanner using chirpy's script. Everything is fine.. but the big problem is that the load average is very high after installed this software.
Server is RedHat ES 4 + cPanel - Dual Xeon CPU 3.20GHz x 4 procs. 2 GB RAM with high e-mail traffic.
Can anyone give me some tips to configure MailScanner to stop spam and avoid a high load average?
Maybe you can tell me what variables are u using in the config file..
My sever is running mailscanner-4.56.8-1. Of late many of our customers complain that mails send To and From our server take hours to be delievered.
I tested this myself by sending test emails to and from my hotmail account which took long time to be received and delivered.
Also, in /var/log/maillog i see entries such as the one below; "Jan 4 20:39:36 www MailScanner[8461]: New Batch: Found 17678 messages waiting "
So i understand there is about 18 thousand emails in MailScanner /var/spool/mqueue.in folder.
To test i stopped MailScanner and started Sendmail, i send an email to my hotmail id and it got delievered immediately, but when i restart MailScanner and resend the same message it took 20mins to get delievered.
- how do i improve MailScanner processing so that messages are delivered faster? - Do i need to change the "Max Children = 5" variable in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf? - how do i force delivery of the 18thousand emails in mqueue.in folder?
My main goal was stopping incomingo spam.. and MailScanner is doing a great work on that.. but, it is taking too much time extracting and scanning attachments... does anyone know how to disable scanning the attachments ?
I was trying to install mailscanner on a cpanel box using chirpy's script [url], followed every step, until this:
Code: [root@server.yourbox.com:~]perl mscpanel.pl -i Unable to open spam.scanning.rules for reading: file or directory doesnt exist at mscpanel.pl line 115. On the 115 line i found this:
Code: open (IN, "</usr/mailscanner/etc/rules/spam.scanning.rules") or die "Unable to open spam.scanning.rules for reading: $!"; The file /usr/mailscanner/etc/rules/spam.scanning.rules just doesnt exists... maybe chirpy's script is not working well installing everything its needed..
I'm running the latest port version on FreeBSD of Postfix, Spamassassin (Razor & Pryzor), ClamAV, and Amavisd-new. I haven't gotten any spam for a while. The 2-3 days including today i've been getting 10+ spams per day. This seemed to happen after the update of spamassasin recently.
Anyone else experiencing this? My rules are pretty quick, at spam-score "5" I reject the mail.
I installed SpamAssasin and set it up in DA, I also use Spam Filter option in DirectAdmin (DA).
The problem is that if someone send me an email which contains any adult word in the body and a regular subject then it will not go to the Spam box, but if that email contains any adult word in the subject and no matter the body has adult word or not it will go to Spam box.
How do i send all the emails contain adult word in body to Spam box?
Hi i'm trying to use spamassassin from each user using .qmail from each mail user but i can't it dosen't works. Also i wish to know if i have any rule on spamassassin to check some words like sex viagra ,etc and if it's found it will delete it.
here to install spamassassin but however have a few questions as im new to doing technical things in ssh.
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On step 3 of the tutorial, we are asked to change things in the /etc/exim.conf file, what is the proper command to navigate to this file and how to replace those text?
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The global spamassassin config file is in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
You'll want to make sure that you have the correct call to spamc in the spamcheck transport in your exim.conf: transport_filter = /usr/bin/spamc -u ${lookup{$domain}lsearch*{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}
For the lines i quoted, im not sure what i have to do here and how to do it.
Lastly how do i know if im installing latest version of spamas and how to test weather it is working against spam?
some good hosts that use more than just SpamAssassin (SA) for their spam filtering?
For instance, MediaTemple uses the Cloudmark plug-in, which greatly improves the stopping of spam. SA out of the box is horrible; and yes, I realize that with some tweaking it "can" be good.
I am setting up spam assassin white list and it says I can put *@domain.com so does that mean it will white list everything from domain.com ?
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Originally Posted by SpamAssassin/cPanel
Used to specify addresses which send mail that is often tagged (incorrectly) as spam; it also helps if they are addresses of big companies with lots of lawyers. This way, if spammers impersonate them, they'll get into big trouble, so it doesn't provide a shortcut around SpamAssassin. Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so friend@somewhere.com, *@isp.com, or *.domain.net will all work. Specifically, * and ? are allowed, but all other metacharacters are not. Regular expressions are not used for security reasons.
I am using cPanel 11 one of my Linux server with O.S. as Fedora core 4. For one of my websites I had enabled spam assassin a few days before. But now I want to disable it but not getting any option to do so.
there is a quota problem , i have checked my server
home/username/.spamassassing
.Spamassassing directoy using much Space .
would you please let me know , what is that dirctory doing ? and what will happen if i will delete all the files in the directory (Specially : auto_whitelist)
I have a dedicated server. It is a Fedora Core 6. It came with "Plesk 30 domain license". However, this license of Plesk doesn't have SpamAssassin enabled. In order to get the license with SpamAssassin, it costs an extra $30 a month.
I believe SpamAssassin by default is in fact installed on the sever, but some of my users are reporting that they are getting Spam. How can I check is SpamAssassin is running? How do I configure SpamAssassin to filter spam on all the e-mail addresses that are created in Plesk?
I want to setup Remote Spamassassin for Smartermail server. I want to the setup the spamassassin on a linux box. Can anybody help me with this as I am not getting any definitive guide for the same?
The problem I currently have is that all e-mails tagged by SpamAssassin as spam are deleted even though they are supposed to be moved to a different "probably-spam" file. In addition, I'd like to use the spamc + spamd configuration and I'm not using it now.
I tested that procmail is installed on my CentOS 5 server that's also using sendmail.
yum remove spamassassin // In case it is pre-installed. It was the last time I did this.
// Download it at spamassassin.apache.org: wget [url]
tar xvfz Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3.tar.gz
cd /Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3
perl build/check_dependencies // Checks which perl module dependencies are missing that need to be installed before proceeding. Then install them
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Upload your own spamassassin/local.conf to /etc/mail/spamassassin
Code: # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. # # Only a small subset of options are listed below # ###########################################################################
# Add *****SPAM***** to the Subject header of spam e-mails # # rewrite_header Subject **SPAM**
# Save spam messages as a message/rfc822 MIME attachment instead of # modifying the original message (0: off, 2: use text/plain instead) # # report_safe 1
# Set which networks or hosts are considered 'trusted' by your mail # server (i.e. not spammers) # # trusted_networks 212.17.35.
# Set file-locking method (flock is not safe over NFS, but is faster) # # lock_method flock
# Set the threshold at which a message is considered spam (default: 5.0) required_score 3.9
# Use Bayesian classifier (default: 1) # # use_bayes 1
# Set headers which may provide inappropriate cues to the Bayesian # classifier # # bayes_ignore_header X-Bogosity # bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Flag # bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Status Make /home/tero world executable (chmod 751)
Upload.procmail to /home/tero // My e-mail user's name.
# Mails with a score of 13 or higher are almost certainly spam. Let's delete them. :0: * ^X-Spam-Level: ************* /dev/null
# All mail tagged as spam (eg. with a score higher than the set threshold) # is moved to "probably-spam". :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes /home/tero/mail/probably-spam
# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in "From" # to be dropped. This will re-add it. :0 * ^^rom[ ] { :0 fhw | sed -e '1s/^/F/' }
I figured that this might be a permissions problem but what I can do without risking security?