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Here's how we set up our site-wide Spam``Assassin bayes database, including the ability for users to train it. {{{#!wiki note
'''Additional information is available at a [[https://wiki.hcoop.net/SpamAssassinAdmin?rev=14|previous version of this page]]'''
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 1. Create a new user `spamd` with home `/var/local/lib/spamd`.
 1. Add "spamd" to `/etc/cron.allow`.
 1. Perform the following as `spamd`:
   1. `cd ~spamd`
   1. `maildirmake -S Maildir`, to create the shared Spam``Assassin mailbox.
   1. `maildirmake -f SiteSpam -s write Maildir`, to create a writable folder for misclassified spam (or if extracting from a tarball, make sure it has the sticky bit set by doing {{{chmod +s Maildir/.SiteSpam/*}}}).
   1. `maildirmake -f SiteHam -s write Maildir`, to create a writable folder for misclassified ham (or if extracting from a tarball, make sure it has the sticky bit set by doing {{{chmod +s Maildir/.SiteHam/*}}}).
 1. Add the following to `~spamd/.crontab` to learn from and delete messages in those shared folders every five minutes (changing MACHINENAME to be the name of the local machine):
    {{{
MAILTO=logs@MACHINENAME.hcoop.net
It is quite outdated. However, it may have some information which has not yet been incorporated into the current version.
}}}
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# NOTE: Once you are certain that sa-learn is working, add "> /dev/null" after it, but before "; find"
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * sa-learn --spam -C /var/local/lib/spamd --dir /var/local/lib/spamd/Maildir/.SiteSpam/cur ; find /var/local/lib/spamd/Maildir/.SiteSpam/cur -type f -delete
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * sa-learn --ham -C /var/local/lib/spamd --dir /var/local/lib/spamd/Maildir/.SiteHam/cur ; find /var/local/lib/spamd/Maildir/.SiteHam/cur -type f -delete
}}}
    '''Be sure there's a newline after the last line, or it won't be processed.'''
 1. Modify `/etc/spamassassin/local.cf` with the directive:
    {{{
# Location of bayes data
bayes_path /var/local/lib/spamd/bayes
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# Fix bayes permissions
bayes_file_mode 0770
== FAQ ==
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# Directives from old setup
# [any custom stuff from the old /etc/spamassassin/local.cf that you want to keep]
}}}
 1. Modify `/etc/default/spamassassin` by setting `OPTIONS` and `ENABLED`as follows. The `-x` prevents `spamd` from trying to look for per-user configuration, which would be silly because it always runs as the same user here. Without this flag, the cron job triggered every 5 minutes would log an error message, which would lead to an e-mail being sent to the `spamd` user.
    {{{
# Change to one to enable spamd
ENABLED=1
=== Where can I find the config files? ===
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OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir=/var/local/lib/spamd -u spamd -x -s /var/log/spamd.log" A: https://git.hcoop.net/hcoop/config/spamassassin.git contains the current spamd configuration, which is pulled into puppet using a git submodule.
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PIDFILE="/var/local/lib/spamd/pid"
}}}
 1. Make a file called `/etc/logrotate.d/spamd` with the following contents.
    {{{
/var/log/spamd.log {
        weekly
                missingok
                create 0640 root adm
                rotate 4
                compress
                delaycompress
                sharedscripts
                postrotate
                [ -f '/var/local/lib/spamd/pid' ] && (kill -HUP `cat /var/local/lib/spamd/pid`) || exit 0
                endscript
}
}}}
 1. Start the daemon by doing {{{/etc/init.d/spamassassin start}}}. Check `/var/log/spamd.log` to be sure that it started OK.
 1. Install the `.crontab` entries that you wrote earlier by doing {{{crontab -u spamd ~spamd/.crontab}}} as root. Do this every time that you make changes to `~spamd/.crontab`.
 1. Edit {{{/etc/courier/shared/index}}} as follows, being sure to separate each column with a single TAB character. The second column is UID, and third column is GID -- consult `/etc/passwd` and `/etc/group` to make these match the `spamd` user and group.
    {{{
spamd 116 119 /var/local/lib/spamd
}}}
 1. Restart courier's IMAP process: {{{runsv restart courier-imap}}}
 1. Test by checking to see if you can access {{{shared.SpamAssassin.SiteHam}}} and {{{shared.SpamAssassin.SiteSpam}}} from IMAP. If not, do {{{maildirmake --add SpamAssassin=~spamd/Maildir ~/Maildir}}} as your normal user from the machine that does courier (and presumably spamassassin as well). You might need to replace `~` with `~USERNAME` if you are using sudo to do this, where USERNAME is your normal username.
 1. Now copy some spammy mail into the {{{SiteSpam}}} directory, wait 5 minutes, and check to see if the mail got learned and deleted.
 1. If so, edit {{{~spamd/.crontab}}} to pipe the output of sa-learn to /dev/null, and run crontab as specified earlier to propogate this change.
Installation is handled using Puppet classes `hcoop::service::mail::spamassassin::{client,server}`, which is unfortunately only accessible to members with admin accounts currently.

Additional information is available at a previous version of this page

It is quite outdated. However, it may have some information which has not yet been incorporated into the current version.

1. FAQ

1.1. Where can I find the config files?

A: https://git.hcoop.net/hcoop/config/spamassassin.git contains the current spamd configuration, which is pulled into puppet using a git submodule.

Installation is handled using Puppet classes hcoop::service::mail::spamassassin::{client,server}, which is unfortunately only accessible to members with admin accounts currently.


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SpamAssassinAdmin (last edited 2021-11-06 18:42:33 by ClintonEbadi)