Mail filtering with spam-assassin
In this recipe, we will learn how to install and set up a well-known e-mail filtering program, spam-assassin.
Getting ready
You will need access to a root account or an account with sudo
privileges.
You need to have Postfix installed and working.
How to do it…
Follow these steps to filter mail with spam-assassin:
- Install spam-assassin with the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install spamassassin spamc
- Create a user account and group for spam-assassin:
$ sudo groupadd spamd $ sudo useradd -g spamd -s /usr/bin/nologin \ -d /var/log/spamassassin -m spamd
- Change the default settings for the spam daemon. Open
/etc/default/spamassassin
and update the following lines:ENABLED=1 SAHOME="/var/log/spamassassin/" ...
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