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<h1 class="page">Distributed James Server &mdash; Anti-Spam configuration</h1>
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<p>Anti-Spam system can be configured via two main different mechanisms:</p>
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<p>SMTP Hooks;</p>
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<p>Mailets;</p>
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<h2 id="_antispam_smtp_hooks"><a class="anchor" href="#_antispam_smtp_hooks"></a>AntiSpam SMTP Hooks</h2>
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<p>"FastFail" SMTP Hooks acts to reject before spooling
on the SMTP level. SpamAssasin hook can be used as a fastfail hook, therefore
SpamAssassin must run as a server on the same machine as the Apache James Server.</p>
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<p>SMTP Hooks for non-existent users, DSN filter, domains with invalid MX record,
can also be configured.</p>
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<p><strong>SpamAssassinHandler</strong> (experimental) also enables to classify the messages as spam or not
with an configurable score threshold (<code>0.0</code>, non configurable). Only a global database is supported. Per user spam
detection is not supported by this hook.</p>
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<h2 id="_antispam_mailets"><a class="anchor" href="#_antispam_mailets"></a>AntiSpam Mailets</h2>
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<p><strong>SpamAssassin</strong> Mailet is designed to classify the messages as spam or not
with an configurable score threshold. Usually a message will only be
considered as spam if it matches multiple criteria; matching just a single test
will not usually be enough to reach the threshold. Note that this mailet is executed on a per-user basis.</p>
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<p>Here is an example of mailet pipeline conducting out SpamAssassin execution:</p>
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<pre>&lt;mailet match="All" class="SpamAssassin"&gt;
&lt;onMailetException&gt;ignore&lt;/onMailetException&gt;
&lt;spamdHost&gt;spamassassin&lt;/spamdHost&gt;
&lt;spamdPort&gt;783&lt;/spamdPort&gt;
&lt;/mailet&gt;
&lt;mailet match="All" class="MailAttributesToMimeHeaders"&gt;
&lt;!-- This mailet is not required, but useful to have SpamAssassin score in headers--&gt;
&lt;simplemapping&gt;org.apache.james.spamassassin.status; X-JAMES-SPAMASSASSIN-STATUS&lt;/simplemapping&gt;
&lt;simplemapping&gt;org.apache.james.spamassassin.flag; X-JAMES-SPAMASSASSIN-FLAG&lt;/simplemapping&gt;
&lt;/mailet&gt;
&lt;mailet match="IsMarkedAsSpam" class="WithStorageDirective"&gt;
&lt;targetFolderName&gt;Spam&lt;/targetFolderName&gt;
&lt;/mailet&gt;</pre>
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<p><strong>BayesianAnalysis</strong> (unsupported) in the Mailet uses Bayesian probability to classify mail as
spam or not spam. It relies on the training data coming from the users’ judgment.
Users need to manually judge as spam and send to <a href="mailto:spam@thisdomain.com">spam@thisdomain.com</a>, oppositely,
if not spam they then send to <a href="mailto:not.spam@thisdomain.com">not.spam@thisdomain.com</a>. BayesianAnalysisfeeder learns
from this training dataset, and build predictive models based on Bayesian probability.
There will be a certain table for maintaining the frequency of Corpus for keywords
in the database. Every 10 mins a thread in the BayesianAnalysis will check and update
the table. Also, the correct approach is to send the original spam or non-spam
as an attachment to another message sent to the feeder in order to avoid bias from the
current sender&#8217;s email header.</p>
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<h2 id="_feedback_for_spamassassin"><a class="anchor" href="#_feedback_for_spamassassin"></a>Feedback for SpamAssassin</h2>
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<p>If enabled, the <code>SpamAssassinListener</code> will asynchronously report users mails moved to the <code>Spam</code> mailbox as Spam,
and other mails as <code>Ham</code>, effectively populating the user database for per user spam detection. This enables a per-user
Spam categorization to be conducted out by the SpamAssassin mailet, the SpamAssassin hook being unaffected.</p>
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<p>The SpamAssassin listener requires an extra configuration file <code>spamassassin.properties</code> to configure SpamAssassin connection (optional):</p>
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<caption class="title">Table 1. spamassassin.properties content</caption>
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<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">Property name</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top">explanation</th>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">spamassassin.host</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Hostname of the SpamAssassin server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">spamassassin.port</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">Port of the SpamAssassin server. Defaults to 783.</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<p>Note that this configuration file only affects the listener, and not the hook or mailet.</p>
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<p>The SpamAssassin listener needs to explicitly be registered with <a href="listeners.html" class="xref page">listeners.xml</a>.</p>
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<p>Example:</p>
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<pre>&lt;listeners&gt;
&lt;listener&gt;
&lt;class&gt;org.apache.james.mailbox.spamassassin.SpamAssassinListener&lt;/class&gt;
&lt;async&gt;true&lt;/async&gt;
&lt;/listener&gt;
&lt;/listeners&gt;</pre>
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