[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Steve [Gentoo]]

I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my 
not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM 
and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring 
fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to 
re-direct email to it from my systemwide procmail setup (using the 
recommended | /usr/bin/spamc -f approach with a size limiter to avoid 
over-burdening spamassassin with any massive emails.)

Everything seems to work well for a fair while, then the spamd process 
gets "wedged" - and in spite of there being a near-0 load, and dozens 
and dozens of messages reported by mailq, none of my mail gets processed 
in a hurry - and after a long while (maybe every half-an-hour, say) an 
email is delivered from the head of my mail queue - which has not passed 
through spamd (according to the headers) - and has no spam-score attached.

I read some suggestions a long while ago which said that "--round-robin" 
as an option was a work-around for a bug with the same consequences.  
My  /etc/conf.d/spamd currently has the options:

SPAMD_OPTS="-m 5 -c -H -l --round-robin"

However, I still get this problem.  I thought that it was related to the 
length of time the spamd process had been running - so I set a cron job 
to re-start the server at an unusual time early every morning... but 
this hasn't been an successful work around either.  It now seems that to 
be triggered by an increased system load - today I ran

# emerge apache squirrelmail

then left... when I returned the emerge had long-since completed by my 
spamd remained "stuck."

Is this a problem everyone is having?  I had no problem like this with 
the elder (3.0.4) version of spamassassin I had installed previously on 
the same hardware.
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[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Gentoo Voyager]

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how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using
qmail,qmail-scanner & spammassassin in gentoo..


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[gentoo-user] Re: Spamassassin

[Xavier Parizet]

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On Wednesday 04 July 2007 09:19:23, "Gentoo Voyager" <gentoovoyager@gmail.com> wrote :
> how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using
> qmail,qmail-scanner & spammassassin in gentoo..
There is a pattern[1] you can put into an email to trigger spammassassin.
> 

Regards,
Xavier Parizet

[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Installing_Amavisd_and_SpamAssassin#Some_Real_Testing

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Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Paul Waring]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:49:23PM +0530, Gentoo Voyager wrote:
>    how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using
>    qmail,qmail-scanner & spammassassin in gentoo..

Check the headers of your incoming emails, there should be some headers
there set my SpamAssassin, such as X-Spam-Score. If those aren't
present, SpamAssassin isn't processing your mail.

Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:49:23 +0530
"Gentoo Voyager" <gentoovoyager@gmail.com> wrote:

> how do i confirm whether my spamassassin woking or no. i'm using
> qmail,qmail-scanner & spammassassin in gentoo..
> 
> 
I typed up some notes while setting up SA enhancements.  Maybe they'd
prove useful to you:

 http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/spamd_add_razor.html
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[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

is it possible to configure Spamassassin to filter out spam-mail,
if the mail contains certain keywords and/or the subject line match
a certain pattern without diving too deep into the source and the
ruleset of spamassassin?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc 

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[kashani]

On 1/26/2011 10:25 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to configure Spamassassin to filter out spam-mail,
> if the mail contains certain keywords and/or the subject line match
> a certain pattern without diving too deep into the source and the
> ruleset of spamassassin?

	I'd consider handling that at the MTA level. In Postfix you would use 
header_check to build rules like that. There is also the added benefit 
of being able to REJECT the mail before it enters your system rather 
than accepting the mail, sending to spamassassin, attempting to bounce 
mail, etc.

This site has a number of good examples
http://www.posluns.com/guides/hedchek.html

kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/26/2011 01:25 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to configure Spamassassin to filter out spam-mail,
> if the mail contains certain keywords and/or the subject line match
> a certain pattern without diving too deep into the source and the
> ruleset of spamassassin?

The rules are generally just regular expressions. From 20_phrases.cf:

  body GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT     /100% GUARANTEED/i

and from 72_active.cf:

  header DRUGS_HDIA       Subject =~ /\bhoodia\b/i

Once you have rules defined, you give them a score. From 50_scores.cf:

  score DRUGS_HDIA 0

You can add descriptions too if you want, just copy whatever the S.A.
signatures do. You can stick them in any (loaded) cf file.