How to enable SpamAssassin on DirectAdmin

Posted Tue, 06/03/2008 - 6:44am

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To enable Spamassassin on your server, you need to first need to install it. Once installed a few minor changes are needed in your /etc/exim.conf file.

1) Install spamd and spamc:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
./spam.sh

2) Start the spamd: /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

3) In order to get exim to use the spamd program, you'll need to make some changes in your /etc/exim.conf. Change: # Spam Assassin
#spamcheck_director:
# driver = accept
# condition = "${if and { \
# {!def:h_X-Spam-Flag:} \
# {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} \
# {!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} \
# {exists{/home/${lookup{$domain}lsearch{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}/.spamassassin/user_prefs}} \
# {<{$message_size}{100k}} \
# } {1}{0}}"
# retry_use_local_part
# transport = spamcheck
# no_verify

to # Spam Assassin
spamcheck_director:
driver = accept
condition = "${if and { \
{!def:h_X-Spam-Flag:} \
{!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} \
{!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} \
{exists{/home/${lookup{$domain}lsearch{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}/.spamassassin/user_prefs}} \
{<{$message_size}{100k}} \
} {1}{0}}"
retry_use_local_part
transport = spamcheck
no_verify

4) Restart exim:
Redhat: /sbin/service exim restart

FreeBSD: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim restart

The global spamassassin config file is in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

You'll want to make sure that you have the correct call to spamc in the spamcheck transport in your exim.conf: transport_filter = /usr/bin/spamc -u ${lookup{$domain}lsearch*{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}

If you run debian and are missing perl or some pm files, type: apt-get install perl-base perl-modules

How to Upgrade SpamAssassin on DirectAdmin

First install INET6 libraries (which latest spamassassin will complain about):
# yum install INET6

Kill current spamd process:
# pkill -9 spamd

Go here and get updatescript and follow directions on how to install it:
[tools] update.script

# cd /usr/local/updatescript
# ./update.script UPDATEME

then install:
# ./update.script SPAMASSASSIN

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try to restart spamd:

# killall -9 spamd
# /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

then/or ...

Try 'ps aux |grep spamd ' to see if it is not already running.

if you get: warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use
# netstat -apt | grep '783'

• DirectAdmin,
• Linux,
• Server,
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