User:Paul/sandbox/Install SpamAssassin
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WARNING: This article is in a user sandbox, indicating it is a rough draft, and as such, is likely incomplete, contains buggy and insecure configurations, and is subject to substantial and frequent changes.
Most of the commands in this article require root
privileges:
username@servername:~$ sudo /bin/bash
SpamAssassin will be configured to interface with Postfix through unix domain sockets.
root@servername:~# aptitude install spamass-milter pyzor razor libmail-dkim-perl root@servername:~# adduser --shell /bin/false --home /var/lib/spamassassin --disabled-password --disabled-login --gecos "" spamd root@servername:~# usermod -a -G spamd spamass-milter root@servername:~# nano /etc/default/spamassassin
SAHOME="/var/lib/spamassassin" SAGLOBALCFGPATH="/etc/spamassassin"
# Change to one to enable spamd ENABLED=1 # Options # See man spamd for possible options. The -d option is automatically added. OPTIONS="--max-children 5 --helper-home-dir ${SAHOME} -u spamd -g spamd --siteconfigpath ${SAGLOBALCFGPATH} --socketpath=/var/spool/postfix/spamassassin/spamd.sock --socketowner=spamd --socketgroup=spamd --socketmode=0660" # Pid file # Where should spamd write its PID to file? If you use the -u or # --username option above, this needs to be writable by that user. # Otherwise, the init script will not be able to shut spamd down. PIDFILE="/var/run/spamd.pid" # Cronjob # Set to anything but 0 to enable the cron job to automatically update # spamassassin's rules on a nightly basis CRON=1 root@servername:~# mkdir /var/spool/postfix/spamassassin root@servername:~# chown spamd:root /var/spool/postfix/spamassassin/ root@servername:~# nano /etc/default/spamass-milter
Comment out the default OPTIONS and paste in:
OPTIONS="-u spamass-milter -i 127.0.0.1 -m -I -- --socket=/var/spool/postfix/spamassassin/spamd.sock"
root@servername:~# nano /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
Add:
## Set Pyzor & Razor config file paths razor_config /var/lib/spamassassin/.razor/razor-agent.conf pyzor_options --homedir /var/lib/spamassassin/.pyzor
root@servername:~# mkdir /var/lib/spamassassin/{.razor,.pyzor,.spamassassin} root@servername:~# pyzor --homedir /var/lib/spamassassin/.pyzor discover root@servername:~# razor-admin -home=/var/lib/spamassassin/.razor -register root@servername:~# razor-admin -home=/var/lib/spamassassin/.razor -create root@servername:~# razor-admin -home=/var/lib/spamassassin/.razor -discover root@servername:~# chown spamd:spamd -R /var/lib/spamassassin/ root@servername:~# nano /var/lib/spamassassin/.razor/razor-agent.conf
Add:
razorhome = /var/lib/spamassassin/.razor
root@servername:~# service spamassassin restart && service spamass-milter restart root@servername:~# spamassassin --lint root@servername:~# sa-update
External links
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