Unless an organization is aware of every factor that contributes to an effective spam antivirus filter, the scenario exists whereby they may select a solution that creates more problems than it solves. A spam antivirus filter has multiple mechanisms to detect spam and malware because spammers and hackers use a variety of techniques to send malicious emails.
No single tool or process can eliminate all spam and malware threats, so spam filtering solutions have a multilayered and multifaceted approach to filtering inbound emails in order to identify those which are malicious. Because of the number of processes used to filter inbound emails, the order in which the mechanisms are applied is important to prevent queues forming in a mail server.
Front end tests such as comparisons against Realtime Blackhole Lists, Sender Policy Frameworks, and SMTP Controls quickly determine if an email is spam before remaining emails pass through a more intensive process that scans emails and attachments for viruses.
The antivirus software used to scan email and attachments should have malicious URL blocking and phishing protection. Without these features, a spam antivirus filter is not fully effective. Consequently, if spam is sent from a new source, it is not necessarily picked up by the front end tests.
Bayesian Analysis inspects the content of an email for words regularly associated with spam and attempts to disguise the words. In the instructions below, serverip is the IP address of the system that will be running spamd , and virtualminip is the IP of the Virtualmin machine.
Once spamd is running on the remote system, you can configure Virtualmin to use it as follows. Now try sending email to a mailbox in one of the domains with spam filtering enabled on your Virtualmin server, and check if SpamAssassin X-Spam headers are added.
The easiest way to setup clamd is to use Virtualmin's built-in support for configuring it. The steps to do this are :. Unfortunately, the executables provided as part of the ClamAV package do not seem to support connecting to a remote server.
However, the clamd-stream-client program can do this, and can be used by Virtualmin versions 3. Once you have the clamd-stream-client Assuming that clamd-stream-client works and can contact the remote system, it will be enabled and used for virus scanning for all domains.
Sometimes email to users that really should be considered spam is missed by SpamAssassin, and other times valid email is mis-classifies as spam. To correct this, SpamAssassin can be trained by submitting to it messages that really should be considered spam or non-spam. For mailbox users who read email via Usermin, this is easy - there are buttons for submitting one or many emails to SpamAssassin for learning.
However, this is not available for users who download and read email via a separate client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Fortunately, Virtualmin 3. Messages to this addresses will be processed hourly by Virtualmin and added to the SpamAsssassin learning databases for their senders. Alternately, you can enable these addresses for all existing virtual servers by SSHing into the system as root and running the command :. If you want the spamtrap and hamtrap addresses created for all new virtual servers, do the following :.
Virtualmin is best able to pass email to SpamAssassin for learning if it is sent to the spamtrap address as an attachment, rather than just by forwarding a quoted message. In most mail clients, this is done by selecting one or more emails from the mail list and then forwarding them all at once.
This way the entire contents of the spam is preserved. Virtualmin can be configured to add the From: addresses from spam submitted to it to the domain's SpamAssassin blacklist. Similarly, it can add the addresses of senders whose email is being incorrectly classified as spam to the domain's whitelist.
Automatic additional to the blacklist is a risky feature to enable though, as forged email from attackers who are not users of your domains can be sent to the spamtrap address and thus add potentially valid addresses to the blacklist. Greylisting is a method for reducing spam by temporarily rejecting email from a remote mail server the first time it attempts to connect. Real mail servers will queue the message and re-try it a few minutes later, at which time your mail server will accept the message.
However, spammers don't generally run real mailservers or re-try, so their messages will never be delivered. Once enabled, you can use the Email Greylisting page to view and edit remote mail servers and local recipients who are excluded from greylisting and always get their mail delivered immediately. You can turn off greylisting at any time by clicking the Disable Greylisting button on the same page.
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