Installing ClamAV
Info: http://www.clamav.net Latest version: 1.5.0 Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Changelog Oct 11, 2025 - clamav upgraded to v 1.5.0. A recent version of rust is needed (successfully using 1.88 here)....
Realtime Block List (RBL) - qmail-dnsbl
Oct 3, 2025:- Added a Data Query Service section, which solves the ban issue from spamhaus from public DNS connections. A Realtime Block List (RBL) is a list of addresses that an RBL list supplier believes are a source of Spam. Download qmail-dnsbl...
daemontools
More info here: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html Original author: D.J. Bernstein github version: 0.82 daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. It monitors qmail services and saves error messages to one or more logs. Changelog Sep 30, 2025 (v0.82)- Fixed crash in multilog caused by invalid buffer...
Preparing the SQL database in SpamAssassin
Official SQL queries Choosing the right perl DataBase Interface (DBI) module DBD::mysql (github) DBD::MariaDB (github) Depending on whether you use MySQL or MariaDB, and if you use MySQL things depend also on the version, you have to install DBD::mysql or DBD::MariaDB perl DBI module. Other connectors...