May 3, 2015 Roberto Puzzanghera23 comments
SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox.
spamassassain
to version 3.4.1The release of version 3.4.1 was announced on Apr 30 2015. The TxRep plugin is now included and disabled by default for new installs, because it goes in confict with AWL, which must be disabled.
Here is how to update quickly:
qmailctl stop spamdctl stop perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy ask cpan> force notest install Mail::SpamAssassin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2 cpan> quit sa-update
Now I enabled all new plugins from /etc/mail/spamassassin/v341.pre
and disabled Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL
from v310.pre
. Finally I inserted those two options in my local.cf:
use_txrep 1 txrep_factory Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList
Then I restarded spamd
and qmail
spamdctl start qmailctl start
perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf commit prerequisites_policy ask install Mail::SpamAssassin quit
These modules are missing and must be installed from CPAN. Some of them have dependencies as well...
At the end this is how I have installed everything. Reply yes if dependencies are found, install in this order and force install when needed.
perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask force notest install Socket6 IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET6 LWP MD5 CPAN::DistnameInfo Mail::DKIM
Installed prerequisites of Net::DNS:
force notest install Test::More MIME::Base64 Digest::MD5 Digest::HMAC_MD5 Net::IP
Continue installing (always from CPAN):
force notest install Net::Ping Net::DNS Time::HiRes Digest::SHA1 Getopt::Long Digest::Nilsimsa URI::Escape HTML::Parser HTTP::Date IO::Zlib Archive::Tar Mail::SPF force notest install Mail::SPF::Query Net::Ident IO::Socket::SSL Mail::DomainKeys Mail::DKIM LWP::UserAgent HTTP::Date Encode::Detect
Now download and install (in this order) razor-agent-sdk
and razor-agent
(download latest version from here):
tar xjf razor-agents-sdk-2.07.tar.bz2 cd razor-agents-sdk-2.07 chown -R root.root . perl Makefile.PL make make install cd .. tar xjf razor-agents-2.85.tar.bz2 cd razor-agents-2.85 chown -R root.root . perl Makefile.PL make make install perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask
Install these modules
force notest install Storable DB_File Net::SMTP BerkeleyDB force notest install Geo::IP IO::Socket::IP Net::Patricia
Finally, if everything is ok install spamassassin
and Razor
via CPAN
force notest install Mail::SpamAssassin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2
I had to skip the tests because off many errors... anyway it works.
Create the spamd
user and group:
groupadd spamd useradd -g spamd -d /home/spamd spamd chown -R spamd.spamd /home/spamd
You can find the config files into /etc/mail/spamassassin
> cd /etc/mail/spamassassin > ls init.pre local.cf v310.pre v312.pre v320.pre v330.pre
# Add *****SPAM***** to the Subject header of spam e-mails # rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM***** # put here your subnet trusted_networks 10.0.0. # Set the threshold at which a message is considered spam (default: 5.0) required_score 5.0 use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 use_txrep 1 txrep_factory Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList
# RelayCountry - add metadata for Bayes learning, marking the countries # a message was relayed through # # Note: This requires the IP::Country::Fast Perl module # loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry # URIDNSBL - look up URLs found in the message against several DNS # blocklists. # loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL # Hashcash - perform hashcash verification. # loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash # SPF - perform SPF verification. # loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF
Run this debug command. If you get no error you are ready to run the daemon.
sudo -u spamd -H spamassassin -D --lint
sa-update
updates the rules (it requires gpg 1.4
). Before running spamassassin
for the first time download the rules:
sa-update
Add to your crontab this line to update the rules once a day
# spamassassin update 30 3 * * * /usr/bin/sa-update --nogpg -v &
The -v
option will produce an email notification to postmaster.
Download the startup script from here. You have to replace the IP of your firewall and place it in /usr/local/bin/spamdctl
or /etc/rc.d/rc.spamd
and make it executable. Check that the path where you daemon has been installed (/usr/local/bin/spamd
or /usr/local/bin/spamd
) matches the one in the run script.
#!/bin/sh # Spamd init script for Slackware # August, 2th 2003 # Martin Ostlund, nomicon # Modified slightly by Troy Belding for Qmailrocks - February 23, 2004 # Modified by Roberto Puzzanghera - September 02, 2014 DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/spamd NAME=spamd SNAME=spamdctl DESC="SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon" PIDFILE="/var/run/$NAME.pid" PNAME="spamd" DOPTIONS="-x -u spamd -A 127.0.0.1,[external-IP/firewall-IP] -s /var/log/spamd.log -H /home/spamd -d --pidfile=$PIDFILE" KILL="/bin/kill" KILLALL="/bin/killall" # Defaults - don''t touch, edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ENABLED=0 OPTIONS="" set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: " $DAEMON $OPTIONS $DOPTIONS echo "$NAME." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " $KILL -9 `cat $PIDFILE` /bin/rm $PIDFILE echo "$NAME." ;; restart|force-reload) echo -n "Restarting $DESC: " $0 stop $0 start echo "$NAME." ;; *) ME=/usr/local/bin/$SNAME echo "Usage: $ME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
Now check that spamd
is running:
> spamdctl start > ps axfu root 1859 0.1 3.4 139360 61044 ? Ss 19:00 0:01 /usr/bin/spamd -x -u spamd -A 127.0.0.1,[firewall-IP] -H /home/spamd -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid spamd 1860 0.0 3.2 139360 58984 ? S 19:00 0:00 \_ spamd child spamd 1861 0.0 3.2 139360 58984 ? S 19:00 0:00 \_ spamd child
Type spamd -c
to learn how to use spamd
. See also http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.4.x/doc/spamd.html
To start spamassassin
at boot time put your startup script in your rc.local
:
/usr/local/bin/spamdctl start &
Create a file /etc/logrotate.d/spamd like this (slackware) to rotate daily your spamd logs:
/var/log/spamd.log { rotate 5 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress postrotate /usr/local/bin/spamdctl restart endscript }
patch of multilog file size limit
April 6, 2018 20:55
patch of multilog file size limit
April 6, 2018 12:35
Modified of qmailctl
April 4, 2018 11:43
Modified of qmailctl
April 4, 2018 02:17
Reason 3 aliases needed
March 25, 2018 14:33
Reason 3 aliases needed
March 25, 2018 14:22
roundcube plugin for change password and set vacation message in qmailadmin cgi-module
March 18, 2018 09:15
imap-login: Info: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=#.#.#.#, lip=#.#.#.#, session=
February 20, 2018 15:58
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Comments
SA scans only from external emails how to scan local emails?
munku January 12, 2018 02:49
Hi,
Spamassassin is installed correctly and is working fine for years and still is. While spamassassin scans incoming email from external sources, it does not scan emails that is being send locally, (from local to local or local to external domains). Is there a way to make it scan local emails as well? I tried modifying tcp rules to include simscan for local IP addresses but it still does not work.
thanks
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How to get SA scan local emails?
Roberto Puzzanghera January 12, 2018 19:04
Try to recompile simscan adding
to your configure. This should "turn on spam scanning for authenticated users (default no)."
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got error
kwa January 7, 2018 15:40
installed everithing, but got this error (slackware current)
anybody knows where to grab..
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got error
Roberto Puzzanghera January 7, 2018 20:03
Let me understand... you upgraded perl and the your installed modules stopped to work?
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SSL and AUTH
Nicolas November 3, 2016 10:03
Hello,
Being a long time qmail user I recently wanted to switch to full SSL. Unfortunately I cannot succeed having both SSL and AUTH working at same time.
When using stunnel, it just creates an openrelay : any login/pass is considered as OK (all vars are the same as for normal smtp)
and stunnel_smtpd.conf
When using sslserver, I've no openrelay, but I don't get AUTH on prompt (I've well exported the SMTPAUTH var)
Has anybody succeeded having SSL and AUTH at same time ?
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I think I did manage to have
mizzio November 11, 2016 12:59
I think I did manage to have SSL on 465 with AUTH. I had to play with the run file of the specific service (on my system, /var/qmail/service/smtpd-465/run). Can you post yours ?
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I don't use SSL 465
roberto puzzanghera November 11, 2016 15:23
I don't use SSL 465
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spamdctl DOPTIONS for IPv6
John D Trolinger July 14, 2016 01:12
Spamassassin 3.4.1 was not working. I was getting spamd.log hits
warn: spamd: unauthorized connection from ::1 [::1]:52080 to port 783, fd 5 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1600.
and spamd was not working at all.
I added ::1 in the spamdctl file like so:
DOPTIONS="-x -u spamd -A 127.0.0.1,::1 -s /var/log/spamd.log -H /home/spamd -d -c --pidfile=$PIDFILE"
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I think you have to check
roberto puzzanghera July 14, 2016 10:26
I think you have to check that spamd is listening on IPv6 as well and eventually add a "-i [::1]:783" option to your spamdctl. Look here for details http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.4.x/doc/spamd.html
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IPv6
John July 15, 2016 00:06
Roberto,
We have a new email server for 300 people thanks to your guide. Being able to use Roundcube with PGP was the key piece. I had to keep the old qmail / sqmail with the PGP plugin up until today.
IPv6 is working great and spamassassin is doing the job.
I sent you a couple of coffee's and we thank you for keeping the awesome qmail alive.
John D. Trolinger
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spamassassin error
rudi durieux February 23, 2016 11:41
Hi,
I have this error on load :
error: Can't locate loadable object for module Geo::IP in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/local/share/perl5/Geo/IP.pm line 42.
Thanks
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spamassassin error
Ivelin Topalov February 8, 2018 16:25
the problem is missing geoip-perl-api - solve like this:
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spamassassin error
Roberto Puzzanghera February 8, 2018 17:19
GEO:IP is already mentioned above among the packages that must be installed via CPAN...
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I would try to see which
roberto puzzanghera February 23, 2016 14:51
I would try to see which module is missing looking inside that file/line
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did you installed GEO:IP?
roberto puzzanghera February 23, 2016 13:01
did you installed GEO:IP?
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I have this in cpan
rudi durieux February 23, 2016 13:14
I have this in cpan
install Geo::IP
Geo::IP is up to date (1.45).
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Geo::IP
John D Trolinger July 14, 2016 01:27
I had to disable loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URILocalBL in v341.pre to get rid of this error in the spamd.log
error: Can't locate loadable object for module Geo::IP in @INC
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Change DB Spamassassin
Arturo May 10, 2015 14:10
For update Spamassassin 3.4.1 is necesary update the db (in my case):
ALTER TABLE `awl` ADD signedby VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' AFTER totscore;
Regards
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Disable Spamassassin
Fabiano Heringer April 29, 2014 15:55
How can I disable the use of spamassassin? Just uninstalling it?
Thanks!
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no, just edit
roberto puzzanghera April 29, 2014 15:59
no, just edit /var/qmail/control/simcontrol and put spam=no. update the simcontrol after that:
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Many thanks
3rensho June 27, 2011 10:07
Wow, just found this post yesterday when I wanted to install Spamassassin on my Slackware64-current box. I can't thank you enough for this superb post. Grazie mille!
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Geo::IP plug not working
catalin March 31, 2014 00:20
Thank you for a great tutorial.
I was wondering did you manage to make the new Geo::IP plug in working. I have installed from cpan and updated (geoiplookup works) but spamassassin doesn't seems to take that in consideration when I block a country. I have enable it from init.pre. Any ideea what can be?
Thanks
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I don't use that plugin
roberto puzzanghera March 31, 2014 14:44
Sorry, I don't use that plugin
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