How-to Configure Server-Wide SpamAssassin Options

Related Documentation: • SpamAssassin Configuration Docs • SpamAssassin Autowhitelist Docs

Last Updated for InterWorx version 3.0.1

No special prerequisites.

The following procedure explains how to change the server-wide spamassassin preferences from the NodeWorx interface, and briefly describes the options.

1. Click on the System Services menu if it is not already expanded.
2. Click on the ♦    Mail Server submenu if it is not already expanded.
3. Click on the      ◊    SPAM Filtering item.
4. You should now be looking at the Mail Server Management :: SPAM Filter Settings controls in the main content area.
5. Locate the SpamAssassin Options section.
6. Modify the values as desired.
7. Click the Update button in the SpamAssassin Options.
8. You will see the following message at the top of the screen: » SpamAssassin options updated successfully

You may not want to enable this setting. It has no bearing on the SpamAssassin setting in SiteWorx, so e-mail messages may be scanned twice if this setting is enabled.

This option will scan all e-mail using the SpamAssassin content filter as the e-mail enters the server. The SMTP connection will be dropped only if the Spam Score is higher than the SMTP Spam Score option below. Otherwise, the e-mail will still be delivered to the recipient.

This is the SpamAssassin score threshold at which the SMTP server will reject a message before local delivery begins. If you don’t want to block any spam at the SMTP level, use a very high number.

E-mails marked as SPAM will have the email subject rewritten with what is entered here. Corresponds to a server-wide spam preference setting of “rewrite_header subject <VALUE>”.

This option sets the method of delivering the actual e-mail spam message. The email can be sent unchanged but with the subject rewritten, it can be attached to an email from SpamAssassin, or it can be attached as plain text to an email from SpamAssassin. Corresponds to a server-wide spam preference setting of “report_safe” with a value of 0, 1, or 2 respecitively.

Enable or disable the SpamAssassin AutoWhitelist functionality. See related documentation above for details.