Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora?

At Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:41:14 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

 
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:47:24 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
 

I figure the tool of choice is spamassassin, but where do I find a
reasonably simple how-to guide?

 
Last I looked, it was a service that individual users had to configure
(e.g. via procmail) for filtering their own mail -- the normal setup did
not automatically filter everything coming in for all users.

It is possible to set up mimedefang as a "milter" (with either sendmail or
Postfix, maybe other MTAs) and mimedefang can use spamassassin as a spam
checker and possibly reject spam at the "door".

I have been using spamassassin+mimedefang with both sendmail (CentOS 5) and
Postfix (CentOS 6, CentOS7, and now Debian 12). Works quite well, sometimes
works too well, esp. when legit companies (and sometimes government agencies)
us really bad web progreammers or crufty hosting providers that send legit
that looks like spam.  Arg...

                 
 

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