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Content filtering with spam and virus detection is now enabled. 5.2.5. Amavisd-new and Spamassassin

When integrating Amavisd-new with Spamassassin, if you choose to disable the bayes filtering by editing / etc/spamassassin/local.cf and use cron to update the nightly rules, the result can cause a situation where a large amount of error messages are sent to the amavis user via the amavisd-new cron job.

There are several ways to handle this situation:

• Configure your MDA to filter messages you do not wish to see.

• Change /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob to check for use_bayes 0. For example, edit /usr/sbin/ amavisd-new-cronjob and add the following to the top before the test statements:

egrep -q "^[ \t]*use_bayes[ \t]*0" /etc/spamassassin/local.cf && exit 0

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