Comments on: How to filter spam with Spamassassin and Postfix in Debian

By: Umarzuki

Umarzuki — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:35:38 +0000

On Debian 5, there’s no /sbin/nologin but there is /usr/sbin/nologin

By: fantasio

fantasio — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:15:11 +0000

Connection refused
111 Can’t open SMTP stream.

i am taking this error.before spamassasins my mail server working perfectly after spamassasin i cannot send email . checked all comment can you help me

i added in master cf.

smtp inet n – – – – smtpd
-o content_filter=spamassassin

and

spamassassin unix – n n – – pipe

user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}

this line

mail:~# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 2110/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN 2110/dovecot
tcp 0 0 localhost:spamd *:* LISTEN 1993/spamd.pid
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1737/portmap
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 1983/sshd
tcp 0 0 *:48059 *:* LISTEN 1755/rpc.statd
tcp 0 52 mail.linuxlike.net:ssh 192.168.3.5:2885 ESTABLISHED 2197/0
tcp6 0 0 [::]:www [::]:* LISTEN 2152/apache2
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN 1983/sshd

postfix doesnt work now .

i checked etc/hosts also squirrelmail was working before spam configuration.

By: Pedro Henrique

Pedro Henrique — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:04:07 +0000

Working Perfectly!!! Thanks!

By: Chemist

Chemist — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:30:53 +0000

It’s ok, I fixed it by adding:

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC

to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf

Cheers

By: Chemist

Chemist — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:31:38 +0000

Hiya,

Great tut, only problem I have is in the spamd.log I get;

info: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in “/etc/spamassassin/local.cf”: use_dcc 0

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

By: Peon

Peon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:20:09 +0000

Your error is because another instance of spamd is running you need to find it and it’s pid and whack it so you can restart the new one. If you ps ax | grep spam it should show up, with the parameters in it like pid, directory it’s running in, etc.. Then when you restart with your new pid it should be ok.

By: fantasio

fantasio — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:04:22 +0000

i am taking this error

Restarting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: No /usr/bin/perl found running; none killed. [2661] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [2661] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 2: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [2661] error: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

By: ling

ling — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:13:43 +0000

Hi,

When I start the spamassassin, I got an error:

Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: [23062] warn: config: created user preferences file: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
[23062] info: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in “/etc/spamassassin/local.cf”: use_dcc 0

Is there something I missed?

By: Leif Egil

Leif Egil — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:52:05 +0000

After having to make some of the changes suggested on certain errors in this last section I have been able to make it work on squirrelmail. However it only works on Squirrelmail. If I try to use an pop3 client I get a user and paswd prompt, it is ever occurring, if I type my user and passwd it just pops up again.

In /var/log/mail.log
I see
Oct 15 11:02:25 postfix/smtpd[9371]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory
Oct 15 11:02:25 postfix/smtpd[9371]: warning: unknown[217.144.253.82]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure

Any suggestions on how to make this work?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:15:02 +0000

Hi, I want to add a disclaimer at end of each emails (altermime) but i have spamassassin working now and I don’t know how to use multiple filters with postfix. if someone can help me…

Thanks.

By: action09

action09 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:27:04 +0000

http://groups.google.fr/group/spamassassin/browse_thread/thread/ba6525c9de67a45d?hl=fr
it’s my post explaining the problem..

By: action09

action09 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:25:55 +0000

Hi all,

First thanks to the tutorial ! I found very useful the idea to run SA not as root but with a different user.
I use a Debian stable with postfix and SA, but as following this tutorial iwasn’t able to use correctly withe the “/sbin/nologin” shell for spamd user the pyzor tests ..

cf:
with a valid shell it’s OK:
# su spamd -c ‘pyzor ping’
82.94.255.100:24441 (200, ‘OK’)

with the “/sbin/nologin” it’s not…

It’s why i’ve posted on SA mailing list, without any answer at the moment..

So if someone can help: How can we run pyzor test with the user spamd (with a nologin shell) as explained above ?

Thanks in advance !!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:18:18 +0000

No need to reply got it working ‘Site-Wide’ on Ubuntu, Postfix, Spamassassin, Courier, Procmail.
After a bit of fidling about with the Username Settings.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:13:33 +0000

Hi, Thanks for this, very helpfull as all the books on spamassassin are so old.
Anyway my question.. Does this work for a ‘Site Wide’ configuration??

Thanks again
Jim

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:45:51 +0000

Also, I had the “Server replied: 111 Can’t open SMTP stream.” error with squirrel mail. I fixed it by hanging:

user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}

user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
(all on one line)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:04:41 +0000

In /etc/postfix/master.cf when you add:

user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}

Is that only for servers running sendmail, or will I have to do something else to get it to work with dovecot?

By: hailang

hailang — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:16:52 +0000

Hi fotofabrik,
I think you must put tab character before -o content_filter=spamassassin and before user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient} . Because they are belong to previous lines and you must have blank characters (space, tab) to indicate that.

By: fotofabrik

fotofabrik — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:13:53 +0000

@kows
Hi, i’ve put this at the end of master.cf but the problem still exists in my cube too.
do you have any idea about this?

By: kows

kows — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:13:58 +0000

@Joe Chiang
Hi, you have to put spamassassin unix – n n – - pipe user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
on one line at the end of the master.cf file.
Cheers,
Gabriele

By: Joe Chiang

Joe Chiang — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:30:44 +0000

I’ve GOT this error
Apr 30 15:27:04 hardy postfix/master[4814]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 86: bad transport type: argv=/usr/bin/spamc

my /etc/postfix/master.cf
smtp inet n – – – – smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin

spamassassin unix – n n – - pipe

user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}