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Se ssio n tweet
w w w .starnet.com T o ins tall amavis d- new, s pamas s as s in and
24/7 My SQL Support c lamav, run the following c ommand:
Dia gno stics, T uning
T ro uble sho o ting by R e co gnize d My apt-get install amavisd-new spamassassin clamav
SQ L Ex pe rts clamav-daemon zoo unzip bzip2 unzoo libnet-ph-perl
w w w .Percona.com libnet-snpp-perl libnet-telnet-perl nomarch lzop
My SQL Reporting Tool pax
Affo rda ble bro wse r ba se d re po rt,
cha rt & m a il m e rge to o l fo r My SQ L A fterwards we mus t c onfigure amavis d- new. T he
w w w .qlrmanager.com
c onfiguration is s plit up in various files whic h res ide
in the /etc/amavis/conf.d direc tory. T ake a look at
eac h of them to bec ome familiar with the
c onfiguration. M os t s ettings are fine, however we mus t modify three files :

Firs t we mus t enable C lamA V and SpamA s s as s in in /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode by

unc ommenting the @bypass_virus_checks_maps and the @bypass_spam_checks_maps lines :

vi /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode

T he file s hould look like this :

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use strict;

# You can modify this file to re-enable SPAM checking t

# and to re-enable antivirus checking.

#
# Default antivirus checking mode
# Uncomment the two lines below to enable it back
#

@bypass_virus_checks_maps = (
\%bypass_virus_checks, \@bypass_virus_checks_acl, \$

#
A nd then you s hould take a look at the s pam s ettings and the ac tions for s pam- /virus - mails in
/etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults. T here's no need to c hange anything if the default s ettings
are ok for you. T he file c ontains many explanations s o there's no need to explain the s ettings here:

vi /etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults

[...]
$QUARANTINEDIR = "$MYHOME/virusmails";
$quarantine_subdir_levels = 1; # enable quarantine dir

$log_recip_templ = undef; # disable by-recipient lev

$DO_SYSLOG = 1; # log via syslogd (preferr
$syslog_ident = 'amavis'; # syslog ident tag, prepen
$syslog_facility = 'mail';
$syslog_priority = 'debug'; # switch to info to drop d

$enable_db = 1; # enable use of BerkeleyDB

$enable_global_cache = 1; # enable use of libdb-base

$inet_socket_port = 10024; # default listening socket

Finally, edit /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user and add the line $pax='pax'; in the middle:

vi /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user

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use strict;

#
# Place your configuration directives here. They will
# earlier files.
#
# See /usr/share/doc/amavisd-new/ for documentation and
# the directives you can use in this file
#

$pax='pax';

#------------ Do not modify anything below this line --

1; # ensure a defined return

A fterwards , run thes e c ommands to add the clamav us er to the amavis group and to res tart
amavis d- new and C lamA V :

adduser clamav amavis

/etc/init.d/amavis restart
/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon restart
/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart

N ow we have to c onfigure P os tfix to pipe inc oming email through amavis d- new:

postconf -e 'content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024'

postconf -e 'receive_override_options = no_address_mappings'

A fterwards append the following lines to /etc/postfix/master.cf:

vi /etc/postfix/master.cf

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[...]
amavis unix - - - - 2 smtp
-o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes

127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - - - - smtpd

-o content_filter=
-o local_recipient_maps=
-o relay_recipient_maps=
-o smtpd_restriction_classes=
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetwor
-o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
T hen res tart P os tfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

N ow run

netstat -tap

and you s hould s ee P os tfix (master) lis tening on port 2 5 (smtp) and 1 0 0 2 5 , and amavis d- new on
port 1 0 0 2 4 :

root@server1:/etc/postfix# netstat -tap

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:10024 *:* LISTEN 15645/amavisd (mast
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:10025 *:* LISTEN 16677/master
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 6177/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 5367/apache2
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 16677/master
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imaps [::]:* LISTEN 14020/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3s [::]:* LISTEN 14088/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3 [::]:* LISTEN 14051/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imap2 [::]:* LISTEN 13983/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN 4006/sshd
tcp6 0 52 server1.example.com:ssh 192.168.0.210%8191:3340 ESTABLISHED 4059/0
root@server1:/etc/postfix#

Razor, P yzor and D C C are s pamfilters that us e a c ollaborative filtering network. T o ins tall Razor
and P yzor, run

apt-get install razor pyzor

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D C C is n't available in the U buntu 8 .0 4 repos itories , s o we ins tall it as follows :

cd /tmp
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11564361/dcc-server_1.3.42-5_i386.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11564359/dcc-common_1.3.42-5_i386.deb
dpkg -i dcc-common_1.3.42-5_i386.deb
dpkg -i dcc-server_1.3.42-5_i386.deb

N ow we have to tell SpamA s s as s in to us e thes e three programs . E dit /etc/spamassassin/local.cf

and add the following lines to it:

vi /etc/spamassassin/local.cf

[...]
#dcc
use_dcc 1
dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc

#pyzor
use_pyzor 1
pyzor_path /usr/bin/pyzor

#razor
use_razor2 1
razor_config /etc/razor/razor-agent.conf

#bayes
use_bayes 1
T hen we mus t enable the D C C plugin in SpamA s s as s in. O pen /etc/spamassassin/v310.pre and
unc omment the loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC line:

vi /etc/spamassassin/v310.pre

[...]
# DCC - perform DCC message checks.
#
# DCC is disabled here because it is not open source.
# license for more details.
#
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC
[...]

Y ou c an c hec k your SpamA s s as s in c onfiguration by exec uting:

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spamassassin --lint

I t s houldn't s how any errors .

Res tart amavis d- new afterwards :

/etc/init.d/amavis restart

N ow we update our SpamA s s as s in rules ets as follows :

sa-update --no-gpg

We c reate a c ron job s o that the rules ets will be updated regularly. Run

crontab -e

to open the c ron job editor. C reate the following c ron job:

23 4 */2 * * /usr/bin/sa-update --no-gpg &> /dev/null

T his will update the rules ets every s ec ond day at 4 .2 3 h.

I f you want to get notific ations about all the email ac c ounts that are over quota, then do this :

cd /usr/local/sbin/
wget http://puuhis.net/vhcs/quota.txt
mv quota.txt quota_notify
chmod 755 quota_notify

O pen /usr/local/sbin/quota_notify and edit the variables at the top. Further down in the file
(towards the end) there are two lines where you s hould add a % s ign:

vi /usr/local/sbin/quota_notify

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[...]
my $POSTFIX_CF = "/etc/postfix/main.cf";
my $MAILPROG = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
my $WARNPERCENT = 80;
my @POSTMASTERS = ('postmaster@yourdomain.tld');
my $CONAME = 'My Company';
my $COADDR = 'postmaster@yourdomain.tld';
my $SUADDR = 'postmaster@yourdomain.tld';
my $MAIL_REPORT = 1;
my $MAIL_WARNING = 1;
[...]
print "Subject: WARNING: Your mailbox is $lu
[...]
print "Your mailbox: $luser is $lusers{$luse
[...]
Run

crontab -e

to c reate a c ron job for that s c ript:

0 0 * * * /usr/local/sbin/quota_notify &> /dev/null

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Connection refused when sending mails

Submitted by Fred (not registered) on Wed, 2009-10-28 10:58.

I got an error when I wanted to send mail, even to an internal account.

I checked the conf again and again until I discvered that amavis was not activated (with netstat -tap).

When I tried to launch amavis I got the following error :

Starting amavisd: The value of variable $myhostname is "postfix", but should have been
a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such.
You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname
in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host's
network name!

I checked my hostname and realized it was not correctly configured.

I jut set it to mail.mydomain.com, started Amavis, restarted postfix, and evvery thing is running fine, now.

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64bit DCC
Submitted by Eric Thelin (not registered) on Mon, 2009-03-02 05:05.

For a 64bit server use these urls in step 10 to get DCC instead of the ones listed.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11565554/dcc-server_1.3.42-5_amd64.deb

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11565552/dcc-common_1.3.42-5_amd64.deb

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