The SpamAssassin FAQ Has Moved

to this Wiki. Here's what *was* there, and where it's moved to:

1. General information and availability

• 1.1. An email I sent was tagged as spam - but it's not!: AvoidingFpsForSenders

• 1.2. How do I use SpamAssassin with procmail? UsedViaProcmail

• 1.3. Does SpamAssassin support real-time blacklisting systems like mail-abuse.org? UsingTests

• 1.4. Can I set up SpamAssassin to filter mail for a whole network? UsingSiteWide

• 1.5. How are the scores assigned? HowScoresAreAssigned

• 1.6. Messages get corrupted when marked as spam: (removed)

• 1.7. Where should I put local-system-specific rules or configuration options? WhereDoLocalSettingsGo

• 1.8. How can I change the way SpamAssassin marks up messages it considers to be spam? ChangingMarkup

• 1.9. I want to run SpamAssassin for my large site. What specification of mail server do I need? SitewideServerSpec

• 1.10. Is it sensible to simply delete all mail that SpamAssassin marks as being spam? DeletingAllMailsMarkedSpam

• 1.11. I've got some wonderful new rules that would help classify mail messages! How do I contribute them? ContributingNewRules

• 1.12. A spam message got through! Can I send it to you so you can update the filters? DoYouWantMySpam

• 1.13. I want to whitelist everyone at my site. How do I do that? WhitelistingEverybody

• 1.14. What is the history of SpamAssassin? SpamAssassinHistory

• 1.15. Does SpamAssassin filter email-borne viruses as well as spam? FilteringViruses

• 1.16. If a message has been learned incorrectly, what do I need to do to fix it? BayesFaq

• 1.17. (deleted)

• 1.18. How can mark as spam all mails that contain a Windows executable? MarkingAllWindowsExecutables

• 1.19. How can I avoid our newsletters being marked as spam? AvoidingFpsForSenders

• 1.20. Is SpamAssassin available for Windows XP? Or a comparable Spam Filter?

2. Razor/DNS/Pyzor/DCC Problems

• 2.1. I get errors about unblessed references from Razor. Help! UsingRazor

• 2.2. How do I report a spam to Razor? UsingRazor

• 2.3. How do I report a whole mailbox full of spam to Razor? SpamAssassin only handles single mail messages. UsingRazor

• 2.4. I get 'bad file descriptor' errors with amavisd-new and Razor2 UsingRazor

• 2.5. How can I tell if SpamAssassin is using Razor? UsingRazor

• 2.6. I upgraded to 2.6x and get "razor2 check skipped" UsingRazor

• 2.7. I never seem to get DCC hits, even though I should. Why? UsingRazor

• 2.8. 'whitelist_from_rcvd' has stopped working. help! UsingRazor

• 2.9. I'm an ISP, and mails from our dialups are hitting RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK.

• 2.10. Razor2 check fails with Can't locate object method "new" UsingRazor

3. Integration With Mail Systems

• 3.1. I posted a query about integrating SpamAssassin with (some mail delivery system), but nobody answered. Should I ask again? AskingAboutIntegrations

• 3.2. Where can I find out about how to integrate SpamAssassin with (some mail system)? FindingIntegrations

4. Other Errors and Troubleshooting

• 4.1. I get coredumps from 'spamd'. FixingErrors

• 4.2. When I use SpamAssassin with Mail::Audit, I get a you cannot use body() error. FixingErrors

• 4.3. I get warnings about tainting when I run spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc . FixingErrors

• 4.4. I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin with exim and procmail. Help! FixingErrors

• 4.5. When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it's not. FixingErrors

• 4.6. I get 'Malformed UTF-8 character' errors on Red Hat 8, or using perl 5.8.0, with SA 2.43. FixingErrors

• 4.7. I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes FixingErrors

• 4.8. In what order are the SpamAssassin configuration files read? FixingErrors

• 4.9. How do I disable certain checks? FixingErrors

• 4.10. SpamAssassin/spamd seem to take a very long time to scan large emails, and are bogging down my server. What can I do? FixingErrors

• 4.11. Mail is being filtered for users listed in 'all_spam_to' FixingErrors

• 4.12. Spam to someone in 'all_spam_to' is also being delivered to other users, without filtering. FixingErrors

• 4.13. Performance on Red Hat 8 is terrible, compared to other OSes FixingErrors

• 4.14. On Red Hat 9, I get 'could not locate your pod2man program'. Workaround? FixingErrors

• 4.15. 'spamassassin' works, but mails through my MTA filter don't scan correctly FixingErrors

• 4.16. I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin and amavisd-new. FixingErrors

• 4.17. A mail has enough points to be spam, but isn't marked as such! FixingErrors

• 4.18. I keep running out of memory every now and again. What's happening? FixingErrors

• 4.19. How can I tell what SpamAssassin is doing / if a SpamAssassin feature is enabled? FixingErrors

5. The Bayesian Classifier

• 5.1. How can my users feed back mail for the Bayesian learner? BayesFaq

• 5.2. Will the learner break if I learn SpamAssassin-modified spam messages? BayesFaq

• 5.3. Can I set up an account for users to forward mail to for learning? BayesFaq

• 5.4. Bayes doesn't seem to be working for me! BayesFaq

• 5.5. Why isn't autolearning working for me? (aka: "autolearn=no") BayesFaq

6. The Auto-Whitelist (AWL)

• 6.1. How does the Auto Whitelist work? AutoWhitelist

• 6.2. Why does the AWL sometimes assign scores the "wrong way"? AwlWrongWay