One of the constant daily/hourly battles faced by all providers and server administrators managing mail servers is spam – the bane of many sys-admins lives. And With Spam now accounting for 80 – 85% of all email traffic, it can be a time consuming job ensuring only proper mail actually gets delivered.

Thankfully Justin Mason and the apache project provide a super free tool to easily deal with this issue and it’s called spam assassin. To very easily configure spam assassin within your virtualmin control panel , simply click on the server you want to configure then  Services > SpamAssassin

Virtualmin provides an excellent very easy to use web based interface, which allows you to easily manage the white/black lists, as well as stop specific emails based on their headers.

The functionality provided is as follows:

• Allowed And Denied addresses
• Spam Classification
• Message Modification
• Miscellaneous User Options
• Header and Body Tests
• Miscellaneous Privileged Options
• Procmail Spam Delivery
• SQL and LDAP Databases
• Manage Auto-Whitelists

Dediserves Virtualmin template is currently running SpamAssassin version 3.2.5

Tags: E-mail, E-mail spam, Server, SpamAssassin

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