how to install spamassassin on remote server

HI,

I want to use remote SpamAssassin on smartermail but how can I install spamassassin on a Linux machine? I am using ubuntu 20.04 and I already installed Spamassassin with the help of the following article

https://www.hostnextra.com/kb/install-spamassassin-with-postfix-on-ubuntu/

do I need to install postfix?

but when I check the logs in smartermail it says

Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server IP:783: System.Exception: Connecting timed out.

[2022.07.01] at MailService.Spam.SpamAssassinClient.ExternalCheck(db_system_spam_assassin_server dbSpamAssassinServer, SpamAssassinServer sav)

[2022.07.01] 23:04:33.255 [33967] Unable to run SpamAssassin spam checks on server : No Spam Assassin servers available

Juan Lai Replied

7/4/2022 at 6:58 PM

Hello Mahesh,

I assume your Spam Server is up ( you can telnet 783 port directly to check if the port is up), and then what you need to do is allow external host(s) to access this Spam Server.

You can try edit

/etc/default/spamassassin

And find

 OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir"

Then add -d and -A options to allow your mail server to access this daemon.

e.q. Assumed your mail server ip is 192.168.1.5

 OPTIONS="-d -i 0.0.0.0 -A 192.168.1.5 --create-prefs --max-children 5 --max-conn-per-child=128 --username spamd --helper-home-dir -s /var/log/spamassassin/spamd.log"

You can man spamd to get more opitions to set.

Hope this does help.

rds

Juan Lai

Mahesh Chavan Replied

7/5/2022 at 4:07 AM

Dear Juan Lai,

Thank you very much. It's working now.

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