{"id":129,"date":"2006-07-30T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-07-30T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:11:07","slug":"spam-and-more-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Spam and more spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first set up the junkmail accounts on MacOS X Server, I came across some web pages describing problems that people had been having with it. <!-- more -->  Details are also given here: http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/spamassassin\/SpamAssassin_on_Mac_OS_X_Server<\/p>\n<p>Probably the most visible problem was that the spamassassin configuration file supplied used obsolete keywords, from a previous version.  This is \/etc\/mail\/spamassassin\/local.cf.  Run spamassassin &#8211;lint to see the errors in this configuration file.<\/p>\n<p>But the second problem took some time to become obvious.  The spam filter on the server seemed substandard in recognising spam, and didn&#8217;t seem to learn as more spam was sent to the junkmail account.  The reason was that, although the nightly cron job was processing the spam, it wasn&#8217;t being written to the right directory!  The two folders involved are \/var\/amavis\/.spamassassin and \/var\/clamav\/.spamassassin.  Just make one into a link to the other to fix this problem (it obviously doesn&#8217;t matter which one is which).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first set up the junkmail accounts on MacOS X Server, I came across some web pages describing problems that people had been having with it. Details are also given here: http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/spamassassin\/SpamAssassin_on_Mac_OS_X_Server Probably the most visible problem was that the spamassassin configuration file supplied used obsolete keywords, from a previous version. This is \/etc\/mail\/spamassassin\/local.cf. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[25,26,37],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server-side","tag-mac-mini","tag-mail","tag-unix-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}