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Time Tested Spam Assassin Solutions: 1 - 25 of 27
 
I have mail from my domains whitelisted and get a lot of spam using the technique of making the sender address equal to the recipient. I would like to write a rule to detect this so I can subt...
I am using jmail 4.5 with classic ASP to send email. When it arrives, SpamAssassin tags it as spam. One of the rules it "breaks" is: 3.2 HELO_LH_HOME           I can't figure out what this ...
Hi! I would like my mail server to reject incoming mail based on the spam score of the mail. I use Postfix, SpamAssassin and Procmail. Is this possible? Currently, SpamAssassin assesses all...
For the past two days, I have received email with a spoofed domain.com(my domain) address (from me to me) that have embedded images of inappropriate content. Normally, Outlook blocks images, b...
Has anyone implemented SpamAssassin in front of an Exchange 2003 server. if so, did you use install the Windows version on the Exchange server, or use a Linux OS with an inbuilt SpamAssassin m...
Some Spam is still getting through even with required_score set to 5.  So I want to lower it to 3.4 (most spam getting thru seems to be getting a 3.5 score).   So I edit /etc/mail/spamassas...
I would like to drop any email going to specific addresses that is above our required_hits score.  Currently we use a linux box for our mail gateway which does anti-virus/spam scanning then se...
We have a Fedora Core 4 box that scans incoming external email for spam via Postfix 2.2.2, amavisd-new 2.4.2, and SpamAssassin 3.1.8.  Everything works very well, but it processes messages ver...
I'm running Spam Assassin and Plesk on my Media Temple hosted linux server. Can someone tell me the best way to run Spam Assassin to fight spam for my clients? Is there a way to set serv...
Hi We are using IMSS 7. When a user sends mails from outlook some email are returned with error message "The following addresses had delivery problems <email address> Network conmunication ...
I have a SBS 2003 server running ISA 2004 & Exchange 2003 with all latest Service Packs --- I am also running Trend Micro SBM virus suite ---- However my ISP just shut down my IP address du...
Hey folks, I'm brand new to SpamAssassin and Linux. I am trying to set up a proof-of-concept project whereby a C# application connects to a spamd server, passes it the text of an RFC2822 me...
Hello all, I just builded a new amavisd-new server to add in our network, but I am having performance issues with the system. Our other two mail-servers run slightly older versions of amavi...
Hi, I am creating normal emails that I send to clients that consistently score over 3.5 on checking for Spam. I understand about not putting 'Viagra' or 'FREE!!!!' in the subject line but how...
Hello all, I'm trying to get spam under control. The boss has agreed to the following scenario. Any message that gets flagged as spam, from any of our domains, to be forwarded to a "global"...
I'm trying to whitelist all mail coming in from our mailing list server, but I can't seem to get it quite right.  I've been working with whitelist_from_rcvd in local.cf and I've tried a number...
My current network is 2003 and as follows a PDC , BDC , Exchange 2003 , MSSQL 2003 , Win2003 with Citrix MF 1.9. 119 XP/Vista clients and a Fortigate 50B asa firewall (I took it over). I would...
I'm having a problem with Pyzor tagging the wrong email as spam (false positive), and I am looking for someone who can explain to me how this is possible. Actually I thought that Pyzor creates...
I have this shown up in my Debian/Postfix/Spamassasin system log: /etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new: bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 70 at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Spam...
I have a spam Unix spam system running postfix of course and occasionally i have a few spam message getting in from time to time. (I am also hosting other mail domains if this makes any differ...
this is a three-part question thus the reason for the point .allocation... basically Im using Spam assassin however im having some difficulty with one or two commands i.e. Question 1) If...
I am using spamasassin along with perl. My perl script calculates the score of emails based on its body content, subject and from address. Mail content type is HTML. I just pass the html alo...
I'm finding emails sent via Outlook are not getting to their destinations probably due to spam filters. I've done a check on 2 emails using MailingCheck which works with Spam Assassin rules an...
I am running a Solaris 10 x86 machine running sendmail and MailScanner/SpamAssassin. I need to improve my SPAM catching --- was working well but lately my SPAM has slipped through the filte...
All of my email is now being filtered by Postini, but I cannot (because it's a shared server at an ISP) firewall my mail server to not accept mail from other sources (so, any non-spam that com...