wk2 spam

Question 1

How might one determine if a spamassassin database is corrupted?

Answer 1

do a sa-learn –dump on it

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/sa-learn –dump

sa-learn –help to find out what other options there are

There’s also sa-compile and sa-update in there

Question 2

What happens if your database is currupted?

Answer 2

It must be moved aside and start the learning process over

Question 3

How could you force old tokens (what is a token?) to expire/

Answer 3

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/sa-learn –force-expire –dbpath /home$user/.spamassassin

Question 4

Give spam assassin examples of spam

Answer 4

It needs 200 in order to start doing its job, point it to the mail directory like so

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/sa-learn –spam /path/to/maildir

Question 5

Give spamassassin examples of ham

Answer 5

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/sa-learn –ham /path/to/maildir

Question 6

How to reinstall spam assassin?

Answer 6

1. remove the rpm
2. remove the files
3. run /scripts/check_cpanel_rpms

Question 7

If spamassasin scores spam as ham then ..

Answer 7

It’s a “poisoned” database, remove it (it will be regenerated)

Question 8

If spamasassin stuff has incorrect structure so can not be read to apply scoring

Answer 8

It’s “corrupted” database, remove it (it will be regenerated)

Question 9

What if spamassasin times out when attempting to score?

Answer 9

It’s too large. You could force tokens to expire like dis

run sa-learn –force-expire /path/to/database

Question 10

What about spamassassin can you manage within an individual cpanel?

Answer 10

black/whitelists and scoring

Question 11

What about spamassassin can you manage within WHM

Answer 11

resource usage, miscellaneous configuration, and spamd startup configurations

Question 12

spamd can be very resource-intensive. You can use the following settings to help control resource usage:

Answer 12

spamd Config: Max Number of Children

exim Config: Max message size