Amavisd-new provides Policy Banks that allow you to manage messages based on the client or sender.  For example if you wanted senders to be able to send to email lists without using the server resources for scanning with Spamassassin and ClamAv for these outgoing messages you could create a Policy Bank Solution: Specify Clients Who Can Bypass Scanning This solution will allow the mail server to avoid the scanning process to save on system resources, ...

Recently my mail server just stopped.  No indication of problems just no mail delivered.  So what do you do in this situation?  Since I have set up so I receive an email summary of mail each day, when that does not come, it tells me I have trouble. 1. Check the Logs This seems so obvious, but in reality it is easy to do a lot of other things before you check the logs...check the logs first.  So what I find in the logs is this: May 12 19:28:44 ...

Recently, working on amavisd-new and restarting it broke several perl modules that are required.  The results of this was that the mail server quit sending mail because it could not process mail due to the broken modules.  Here is the log file info that helped me locate the problem. Mar 20 03:23:33 ns postfix/smtp[20284]: ...

Amavisd-new acts as a connecting point between Spamassassin, Clamav and Postfix.  This is important to  remember because much of the configuration that would seem to be done on Spamassasin directly, actually occurs in the amavisd-new configuration file. When amavisd detects spam using Spamassassin it will log it to the log file and ...

Install of Amavisd-New on Ubuntu 8.10 One of the most frustrating problems with setting up any mail server is the configuration required for anti-virus protection and Spam checking.  Amavisd-new provides an excellent tool to help in setting that up.  This is a step-by-step process in providing your mail server, the example is Ubuntu ...

This program is used to tie the scanning programs ClamAv and SpamAssassin to Postfix.  Download the program from http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/.  Place the download in a location where you want to run the program from for example /usr/local.  Be sure you have perl version 5.8.2 or later for amavisd-new as it is a perl script. Unpack the program in /usr/local with: tar zxvf amavisd-new-2.6.1.tar.gz Move into the directory. cd ...

amavisd-new-2.6.1 release notes BUG FIXES - avoid a bounce-killer's false positive when a message is multipart/mixed with an attached message/rfc822 (looking like a qmail or a MSN bounce) and having attached a message with a foreign Message-ID - by restricting the check to messages with an empty ...