Topic: Spamassasin rpm

[John]

Hi

I have 5.6 and have decided enough is enough and I need spamassasin.

last time I looked into this there was no rpm for spamassasin for 5.6.

Can somebody bring me up to speed on this.

is there an rpm?

is it something that is configured so you can add to your blacklist and whitelist and see what is being held/deleted in the server manager.

John

[Ray Mitchell]

http://www.leiinc.com/repository/Linux/Mitel_SME_Server/Beta/Spamassassin/

You will also need user manager panel from dungog.net
Ray

[John]

Hi

Thanks.

I have installed those and seems to be up and running.

How do I test it... almost makes me want somebody to send me some spam now to see what happens...

Maybe I should be addressing these kinds of questions to a spamassassin list.

But I am still cnfused over how it works.

Say somebody sends me some spam and my mail program logs on to my pop account to download my mail and in there is an email which is from Mr Annoyingafrican who wants me to send him my bank details so he can transfer $11m and spamassassin sees this and thinks "no way"

What then happens to this mail? does it arrive in my inbox and get chucked in a junkmail file and I have to go in and add the sende rto my blacklist or what?

John

[Brian Read]

If you have ticked the box in the spamassassin server mamanger panel  to route your spam to a "junkmail" mail box folder, then it will be retained on the server, and you can use webmail:

https:/webmail

to examine it.

If you do this and find there is no "junkmail" folder, then you have not yet had any spam, and thus procmail has not created it.

Cheers

Brian

[John]

Hi

If I type https:/webmail I get:

An error occured while loading https:/webmail:

Unknown host No host specified!

I am assuming this is not right and I am making a very basic error that is going to make me feel like a total and utter newbie.

John

[John]

Hi

Sorry I did put in my server in that so I put https:/Neo/webmail (Neo being my mailserver.

Before somebody groans and calls me a total and utter twit!

John

[John]

Hi

However if I put in http://Neo/webmail I get:

The requested URL /webmail was not found on this server

What does this mean?

John

[Ray Mitchell]

Well it depends what setting you put in server manager

Try https://Neo/webmail

You do need to enable webmail in the server manager and chose what type of access you allow http or https and whether local or public

As far as spammassassin is concerned it depends on whether you are using POP or IMAP.
You need to instal user manager and enable procmail for each user.

If IMAP then you should see the junkmail folder in your email client.
If you are using POP then do not tell spamassassin to send to the junkmail folder, the only way you will get to see the folder is by using webmail.

If you use POP then messages considered as spam will be delivered as usual, but you can tell spamassassin to apend the SPAM report to the message. That way it is pretty clear which messsages are spam and which messages are not.
You can set up a rule in procmail to handle these messages as you see fit.


Hope this helps
Ray

[Ray Mitchell]

To test, send yourself some mail that has lots of phrases that emulate junk or spam mail content. Use words like $10,000 and buy and sell and use ALL CAPITALS, things that spamassassin will pick up on.

Have a look at their web site for details.

Ray

[Brian Read]

sorry about the https:/webmail

I mean't

https://yourservername/webmail

Except I put the "yourservername" in chevrons, and the forum email sender editted them out for some reason.  The posting was correct on the web!!

Ray has given you more useful info, so i hope it is working now.

Cheers

Brian

[John]

Hi

I sent myself some spam [Gaarrr] and it went straight on through no problem. Had all the classics in the title PrOn PENIS EXTENSION EARN £10,000 etc

Don't think I have webmail set up properly.

I have the user manager panel installed and running. I have enabled email retrieval for all users.

is there anything I can do by logging into the command prompt as root to get some idea of what is going on.

Like find out if webmail is running etc...

I will go have a look at the FAQ at spamassassin when I can access them (timing out all the time at the moment).

John

[Brian Read]

No, webmail doesn not "run" it is just there.

I suspect you have not enabled procmail processing for you users.  This is a multi stage process.  Having installed the user-manager, then go back into server mamanger and look for the user panel access panel. Go into the Global parameters, and tick the box for userpanel-procmail.  Then log into the user manager:

https://yourserver/user-manager

and put in your username and password, and goto the "process mail" panel, where you can set the user into "geek" mode.

Then return to server manager and go to the spamasassin planel and restart spamassassin.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Brian

[John]

Hi

OK did that.

Got a friend to send me some spam and it all got through.

John

[Ray Mitchell]

go to
https://Neo/user-manager

logon as a user whose email you want to be scanned by spammassassin
logon with the user password
in user manager go to Your settings Forward mail

The Email delivery field on rhs should be set to Use procmail to process mail

If you do not have this set for every user then the email just bypassess spamassassin and will not get scanned and "go straight through" as you say.

Use something like this for a message, I have just been testing it myself and this message definitely gets caught by spamassassin

MAKE  $1,000,000 INSTANTLY
BECOME A MILLIONAIRE OVERNIGHT
YOU CAN BE RICH TOO

Regards
Ray

[John]

Hi

Cheers Ray have done as you said.

Bit confused still.

Do I still have to have it set in geek mode?

Do I have to set all the spam rules mysslf.

ALso I am confused about what i should do with my email program.

DO I have to set it now to get mail off my server rather than log into my pop accounts?

John