Postal: Spam checks, is it working?

[navinp]

I'm seeing this message:

This message doesn't have any spam checks.
This likely means we haven't scanned this message to determine its likelyhood of being spam. It may take a few seconds to appear after a new message is received.

Does it mean, that the spam checks are not working?

[saire-lancelot]

Check /var/log/mail.log. There you can see, if spamd is checkig the mails.

[navinp]

I checked the /var/log/mail.log txt, but it had nothing in it. Just a blank file.

[saire-lancelot]

Is spamassassin installed and runnig and the postal configuration correct?:

systemctl status spamassassin.service

check /opt/postal/config/postal.yml:

spamd:
enabled: true
host: 127.0.0.1
port: 783

[navinp]

Hello @saire-lancelot

Spamassassin was not installed, thanks for the feedback, will let you know how it goes.

[navinp]

Spamassassin installed.

After that looked into the file /postal.yml

But it didn't have anything about spamd, so I added it.

After that restarted the postal using postal restart

I send a test mail and got this error:

March 22, 2018 00:00
ERROR
An internal error occurred while sending this message. This message will be retried automatically. This this persists, contact support for assistance.

NoMethodError: undefined method `enabled?' for nil:NilClass

Support Ref: J-WI9NLW2XDE

[navinp]

Hello,

I removed the spamd-part from the /postal.yml file, restarted using postal restart and now I see the spam checks are indeed working.

I don't know what is a good practice, but I have put the Outbound spam threshold to 5.0

[saire-lancelot]

Best Case is to test it with a real spam mail. I use 3.0

[navinp]

I think this happened after the server was rebooted :/

root@domain:~# systemctl status spamassassin.service
● spamassassin.service - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; disabled; vendor pr
Active: inactive (dead)

[saire-lancelot]

Can you manually start the service? If you want to auto-start the service after each reboot, this will do the job:
systemctl enable spamassassin.service

[navinp]

I have this Postal installed on a fresh new box, Spam checks are not working... I have Spamassassin enabled though and active (running).

It's just not scanning the emails :/

Is it something I missed on this fresh new box?

[willpower232]

When you say its not scanning the emails, what exactly are you seeing?

[navinp]

It shows this message:

This message doesn't have any spam checks.
This likely means we haven't scanned this message to determine its likelyhood of being spam. It may take a few seconds to appear after a new message is received.

[willpower232]

Are you referring to a message that you have sent from Postal or one that has been received by Postal?

By default, messages sent from Postal are not checked for spam because its intended they are sourced from yourself and not likely to be spam at all.