June 13, 2013
Yii Jquery Dialog -HowTo-SpamAssassin correctly installing plugins and dependencies.
Okay, at times SpamAssassin can be a bit hard to correctly make it work on some environments if you’re not using a commercial product like CPanel
Okay, let’s go over the basics, we need to make sure plugins are installed correctly and its dependencies ofc.
Lets do some installing of Pearl and Spam Assassin.
perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf commit prerequisites_policy ask install Mail::SpamAssassin quit
perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask force install Socket6 IO::Socket IO::Socket::INET6 LWP MD5 CPAN::DistnameInfo Mail::DKIM force install Test::More MIME::Base64 Digest::MD5 Digest::HMAC_MD5 Net::IP force 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 install Mail::SPF::Query Net::Ident IO::Socket::SSL Mail::DomainKeys Mail::DKIM LWP::UserAgent HTTP::Date Encode::Detect install Storable DB_File Net::SMTP IP::Country::Fast BerkeleyDB force install Mail::SpamAssassin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2
Once this has finished our dependencies should be met, let’s go over the config file for spam assassin. Find the INIT.PRE file:
# 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
Uncomment the plugins so they get loaded correctly, and update the rules by running:
sa-update
I’d also recommend adding that to your crontab to get periodically updated.
# spamassassin update 30 3 * * * /usr/bin/sa-update --nogpg -v &
-v will send mail to postmaster [selected upon installation]
user@user(link sends e-mail):~# service spamassassin restart ##Its always good to restart the service upon maintenance.