The SpamAssassin FAQ Has Moved
to this Wiki. Here's what *was* there, and where it's moved to:
- General information and availability
- 1.1. An email I sent was tagged as spam - but it's not!
- 1.2. How do I use SpamAssassin with procmail?
- 1.3. Does SpamAssassin support real-time blacklisting systems like mail-abuse.org?
- 1.4. Can I set up SpamAssassin to filter mail for a whole network?
- 1.5. How are the scores assigned? *
- 1.6. Messages get corrupted when marked as spam
- 1.7. Where should I put local-system-specific rules or configuration options?
- 1.8. How can I change the way SpamAssassin marks up messages it considers to be spam?
- 1.9. I want to run SpamAssassin for my large site. What specification of mail server do I need?
- 1.10. Is it sensible to simply delete all mail that SpamAssassin marks as being spam?
- 1.11. I've got some wonderful new rules that would help classify mail messages! How do I contribute them?
- 1.12. A spam message got through! Can I send it to you so you can update the filters?
- 1.13. I want to whitelist everyone at my site. How do I do that?
- 1.14. What is the history of SpamAssassin?
- 1.15. Does SpamAssassin filter email-borne viruses as well as spam?
- 1.16. If a message has been learned incorrectly, what do I need to do to fix it?
- 1.17. How do I get the SpamAssassin RPM to compile on RedHat 7.1?
- 1.18. How can mark as spam all mails that contain a Windows executable?
- 1.19. How can I avoid our newsletters being marked as spam?
2. Razor/DNS/Pyzor/DCC Problems
- 2.1. I get errors about unblessed references from Razor. Help!
- 2.2. How do I report a spam to Razor?
- 2.3. How do I report a whole mailbox full of spam to Razor? SpamAssassin only handles single mail messages.
- 2.4. I get 'bad file descriptor' errors with amavisd-new and Razor2
- 2.5. How can I tell if SpamAssassin is using Razor?
- 2.6. I upgraded to 2.6x and get "razor2 check skipped"
- 2.7. I never seem to get DCC hits, even though I should. Why?
- 2.8. 'whitelist_from_rcvd' has stopped working. help!
- 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"
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?
- 3.2. Where can I find out about how to integrate SpamAssassin with (some mail system)?
4. Other Errors and Troubleshooting
- 4.1. I get coredumps from 'spamd'.
- 4.2. When I use SpamAssassin with Mail::Audit, I get a you cannot use body() error.
- 4.3. I get warnings about tainting when I run spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc .
- 4.4. I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin with exim and procmail. Help!
- 4.5. When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it's not.
- 4.6. I get 'Malformed UTF-8 character' errors on Red Hat 8, or using perl 5.8.0, with SA 2.43.
- 4.7. I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes
- 4.8. In what order are the SpamAssassin configuration files read?
- 4.9. How do I disable certain checks?
- 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?
- 4.11. Mail is being filtered for users listed in 'all_spam_to'
- 4.12. Spam to someone in 'all_spam_to' is also being delivered to other users, without filtering.
- 4.13. Performance on Red Hat 8 is terrible, compared to other OSes
- 4.14. On Red Hat 9, I get 'could not locate your pod2man program'. Workaround?
- 4.15. 'spamassassin' works, but mails through my MTA filter don't scan correctly
- 4.16. I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin and amavisd-new.
- 4.17. A mail has enough points to be spam, but isn't marked as such!
- 4.18. I keep running out of memory every now and again. What's happening?
- 4.19. How can I tell what SpamAssassin is doing / if a SpamAssassin feature is enabled?
5. The Bayesian Classifier
- 5.1. How can my users feed back mail for the Bayesian learner?
- 5.2. Will the learner break if I learn SpamAssassin-modified spam messages?
- 5.3. Can I set up an account for users to forward mail to for learning?
- 5.4. Bayes doesn't seem to be working for me!
- 5.5. Why isn't autolearning working for me? (aka: "autolearn=no")
6. The Auto-Whitelist (AWL)
- 6.1. How does the Auto Whitelist work?
- 6.2. Why does the AWL sometimes assign scores the "wrong way"?