In this guide, we will explain how to setup and configure a mail server with PostfixAdmin, Postfix, Dovecot, MariaDB and SpamAssasin on a CentOS VPS. PostfixAdmin is a PHP-based web front-end that allows you to manage virtual domains and users for a Postfix mail transport agent. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for a CentOS 7 VPS.
In this article, we will show you how to set up and configure a mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, SQLite and PostfixAdmin on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with Nginx and PHP 7.0. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. To set up a mail server with PostfixAdmin, just follow the steps below.
In the following tutorial we are going to cover the procedure of installing and integrating SpamAssassin with Exim on a CentOS 7 Linux VPS. Once the set-up is completed, SpamAssassin will be able to scan and mark the emails detected as SPAM.
What is SpamAssassin?
It is a software program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules. It is a very intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email and apply the tests to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods.
The following article is part 4 of our mailserver set-up with virtual users and domains using Postfix and Dovecot on a CentOS 6 VPS, followed by part 2 which explains how to install and set-up the Roundcube webmail interface on a linux vps server and then part 3 which is all about how to set-up an SSL encrypted connection in Postfix, Dovecot and Apache using SSL certificates.
In this tutorial we are going to set-up SpamAssassin on one of our CentOS 6 linux virtual servers and integrate it into our Postfix mailserver set-up so it can scan and mark the emails detected as SPAM.
What is SpamAssassin?
It is a program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.
In one of our previous articles we explained how one can setup and configure a simple but powerful mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, SASL and virtual users in a Debian Squeeze VPS.
In the following article we’re going to implement SpamAssassin into the mail server setup so that it can be used to identify and tag spam email messages.
SpamAssassin is an Open Source mail filter, written in Perl, used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules. It can be used on a wide variety of email systems including sendmail.