Comments on: SpamAssassin for Dreamhost

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:54:37 +0000

One of the lucky ones as I signed up last summer.

Sorry if I am being thick here, but when you say “allow spam to accumulate in your Spam folder”, are you meaning the SquirrelMail SPAM folder or my IMAP Spam folder?

One of my biggest complaints about DH’s spam support has been the dependency on using that god-awful web app to manage spam and whitelists.

Thanks for this great tutorial!

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:58:34 +0000

Had it installed and running great, but now I’ll no longer be able to do it for any new users in the future. This was one of the biggest selling points that got me to sign up, and the other was off-site backups of my personal data (particularly personal photos taken with our DSLR). Guess what: Dreamhost policy changes have taken both away. The old bait ‘n switch.

Of course, now I have like 10 domains for family and friends hosted there, so I can’t migrate to a new host all that easy. I guess that’s what they’re counting on…

By: Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:42:45 +0000

Sorry this is no longer an option with dreamhost. Dreamhost removed the ability to have a custom .procmail or any mail filtering. To read more see: http://www.krkeegan.com/archives/84-Dreamhost-Removes-SpamAssassin.html

Dreamhost Deletes SpamAssassin

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:36 +0000

I did this and followed the instructions off the DH wiki for installing DNS tests but I only show SpamAssasin headers for version and score and not DNS testing.

By: rng

rng — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:16:21 +0000

I don’t think it’s a good idea to learn the entire inbox as ham. It should be a folder where you’re sure it is 100% ham. This doesn’t apply to the inbox, as fresh spam might sneak in while spamassassin is learning.

By: Andrew Kelley

Andrew Kelley — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:09:30 +0000

Thanks for the very helpful tutorial. Looks like you are setting up the awl table in MySQL but not actually using it. I’ve figured out how to turn on MySQL auto-whitelist from the docs, but I don’t know how to migrate my old awl database to MySQL. Anyone know?

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:36:54 +0000

I’ve only tried SA with my user account. To handle those mail-only accounts my first thought is to use procmail and setup forwarding rules. If I get a chance to try this, I will definitely update the guide with my findings.

By: Desh

Desh — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:25:19 +0000

I have the same question Steven does. I have my own Dreamhost account (and thus have shell access), but my email is mostly through an email-only account I set up for myself. So I can log into a shell from my “main” account but not my email account. Does this prevent me from installing SA this way?

Thanks!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:37:53 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. I’m eager to try this out after running into some issues with both the DH built in junk filter and then later their own install of SA.

When you say “Log in to the account that will be using SpamAssassin.” are you talking about any SSH account with access to the domain that will use SA or the specific email account that SA will be used on?

Thanks for any clarification you can provide. I’ve read through the entire instruction set and the rest of it looks pretty straightforward. Thanks for the great doc!

By: matthew

matthew — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:50 +0000

I’m glad you liked the instructions, Chris. I’ve updated the graphics and made a few other modifications. I finally updated the guide to reference a Spam folder instead of SquirrelMail’s Trash folder. Also, there are no more “optional” steps. Automation adds value, so creating the script and crontab job are now considered an essential part of the guide.