Questions tagged [amavis]
an antimalware/antispam system
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Why is Amavis giving a Retry limit exceeded / File exists error on startup?
I noticed my mail server was getting some service temporarily unavailable errors and wasn't able to deliver emails, so after digging into it I found the cause was Postfix was unable to connect to ...
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SELinux is blocking connections from Amavis back into itself: no way in/out?
Running a fresh CentOS8 install here, MTA is Postfix with Amavis hooked in. I want to have Amavis inject messages from ORIGINATING (incoming submissions from port 587/Postfix through 10026/Amavis) ...
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I want to blacklist mail in amavisd-new from a domain where sender addresses are utf8 encoded
In amavisd.conf I have read_hash(\%blacklist_sender,'/etc/amavis/blacklist'); @blacklist_sender_maps = (\%blacklist_sender);` In the blacklist file I have @example.com (not the real domain) However ...
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The mail system : user unknown Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; user unknown
I have a mail system from Postfix, Dovecot, Amavis, Spamassin on a Debian Jessie 8.5. Imap and pop3 work fine. Smtp port 465 over ssl sends fine, delivery is okay, but port 25 and 587 got the error "...
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Scan outgoing Postfix email for spam with Spamassassin
Is there a way to filter outgoing Postfix email for spam possibly with Spamassassin? I found this answer about how to do it with Amavis but it's terribly outdated and not very well explained.