[CentOS] Spamassassin + Postfix : delete spam mail on the server ?

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 12/18/18 3:34 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 18/12/2018 08:08, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My mail server is running on CentOS 7 with Postfix, Dovecot and
>> Spamassassin. I get quite a lot of spam on a few accounts, and
>> Spamassassin does its job fine. Spam mail is identified correctly, and
>> it looks like there are no false positives, e. g. valid mail is never
>> identified as spam.
>>
>> When a message is flagged as spam, the subject line is rewritten to
>> begin with [SPAM]. Then, a filter in Mozilla Thunderbird is setup, and
>> when a subject line begins with [SPAM] the message is directly sent to
>> Trash.
>>
>> I've documented the whole configuration here:
>>
>>    * https://blog.microlinux.fr/spamassassin-centos/
>>
>> The problem with this setup is that spam mail is still delivered, and I
>> need Thunderbird's filters to weed out incoming mail. And when I'm using
>> my webmail (running SquirrelMail), my inbox is a tsunami of unread
>> [SPAM] messages.
>>
>> So I'd like to go a step further and delete all messages flagged [SPAM]
>> directly on the server. It doesn't look like Spamassassin provides this
>> functionality.
>>
>> Did any of you guys succeed in doing this anyway?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Niki
>>
> 
> I've used for quite some time now a combination of
> postfix+SA+MailScanner for this, not delivering mails, but letting those
> in a quarantine, and using Mailwatch (http frontend) to let people
> release mail from the quarantine, etc ..

Thanks, Fabian. I was looking for something like that for long time. I 
was using the above under amavisd-new. And as I didn't find GUI 
front-end ;-( I ended up using maia mailguard. By that point I switched 
servers to FreeBSD, and there is FreeBSD maia port which is being 
actively maintained by brilliant person, so that may be the best source 
to get maia from, not the main maia website.

Thanks again, it looks like mailwatch does everything I needed (and 
found in maia): per user white/blacklists, other individual setting, 
quarantene release, etc.

Valeri

> 
> https://www.mailscanner.info/
> https://mailwatch.org/
> 
> And the ansible role that I initially used for this on CentOS 7 :
> https://github.com/arrfab/ansible-role-mail-gateway
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
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