[CentOS] spamassassin with postfix/dovecot

Mon Jul 8 16:19:20 UTC 2013
Barry Olddog <oldcanine at yahoo.com>

----- Original Message -----

> From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it>
> To: centos at centos.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 7:19 PM
> Subject: [CentOS] spamassassin with postfix/dovecot
> 
> I'm trying to install spamassassin on a postfix/dovecot server,
> running CentOS-6.4, following the instructions at
> <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd>.
> I think I have taken all the steps indicated,
> and the configuration seems to pass the tests suggested,
> although the response is much more sparse than that described:
> ------------------------
> [tim at alfred ~]$ telnet localhost 10024
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 [127.0.0.1] ESMTP amavisd-new service ready
> helo localhost
> 250 [127.0.0.1]
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 [127.0.0.1] amavisd-new closing transmission channel
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> [tim at alfred ~]$ telnet localhost 10025
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 alfred.gayleard.eu ESMTP Postfix
> helo localhost
> 250 alfred.gayleard.eu
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 Bye
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> ------------------------
> I tried sending the GTUBE spamassassin test-
> mail given,
> but I got the error message:
> ------------------------
> Failed to transport message. The message content was not accepted.
> The server responded: "Message refused"
> ------------------------
> But I see no evidence that email is being processed by spamassassin;
> and I don't see anything in any of the conf files
> setting that up.
> 
> Any suggestions or elucidation gratefully received.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> 
> 

Did you check /var/log/maillog? Grep on "amavis".