Possible to have SpamAssassin ONLY scan outbound Email?

[4u123]

We have SpamAssassin disabled on all our servers and we use a cluster of external MTA's for inbound spam checking.

I'd very much like to start using SpamAssassin to check outbound mail, but I don't want to use it for inbound filtering at all.

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Try enabling the following option in "WHM Home » Service Configuration » Exim Configuration Manager" under the "SpamAssassin Options" tab:

"Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on SpamAssassin® internal spam_score setting"

Then, browse to SpamAssassin with the cPanel interface of an account and make sure it's disabled. Or, leave it enabled and set the value to a very conservative number so that it does not block detected SPAM. Let us know the outcome.

Thank you.

 

[4u123]

Hello

Try enabling the following option in "WHM Home » Service Configuration » Exim Configuration Manager" under the "SpamAssassin Options" tab:

"Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on SpamAssassin® internal spam_score setting"

Then, browse to SpamAssassin with the cPanel interface of an account and make sure it's disabled. Or, leave it enabled and set the value to a very conservative number so that it does not block detected SPAM. Let us know the outcome.

Thank you.

Thanks Michael, but the SpamAssassin service would at least need to be enabled. The problem would be globally disabling inbound filtering. If I removed it from the features list, so that the icon was not available in cpanel, I'm not sure that would be enough.

 

[vanessa]

In your Exim config, check this one off:

SpamAssassin™: Forced Global ON [?]


Your users will still have the ablity to enable it, but it will be off be default. If you don't want them to enable it, remove the feature via Feature Manager. Not sure if this is how cPanel recommends doing it, but it's how I have some of my clients' servers set up and it works fine.

 

[4u123]

In your Exim config, check this one off:

SpamAssassin™: Forced Global ON [?]


Your users will still have the ablity to enable it, but it will be off be default. If you don't want them to enable it, remove the feature via Feature Manager. Not sure if this is how cPanel recommends doing it, but it's how I have some of my clients' servers set up and it works fine.

Ok thanks Vanessa, much appreciated. I'll test that out.

 

[4u123]

I've enabled the SpamAssassin service in the service manager and disabled "Forced Global ON" in the Exim config (which seems to be the default option) and set the option to scan outgoing mail. I've disabled SpamAssassin from the feature list to remove it from the cpanel interface.

Can you possibly advise how the "Enable SpamAssassin spam filter" option in tweak settings will influence this? Currently it is disabled.

 

[vanessa]

Can you possibly advise how the "Enable SpamAssassin spam filter" option in tweak settings will influence this? Currently it is disabled.

That I'm not sure about. The spamd startup is configured via Service Manager. When I check this setting off, spamd doesn't stop. So it doesn't appear to affect the service, perhaps it just removes functionality from the cPanel interface itself.