Tag subject of spam messages

Article updated on 23 May, 2008

How to configure SpamAssassin and AXIGEN to prepend a "tag" to the subject header of spam messages.

SpamAssassin configuration

In order to prepend a tag to the subject of spam messages with a tag of your choice, you first need to configure SpamAssassin and set the desired tag. Depending on the SpamAssassin solution used you need to edit one of the following files:

• For SpamAssassin Bundled:
  /etc/opt/axigen/spamassassin/conf/local.cf
• For system SpamAssassin:
  /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
  or
  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
  

In one of the files above you will need to add or uncomment the following configuration option:
rewrite_header Subject [SPAM]

AXIGEN configuration

In the AXIGEN configuration file /var/opt/axigen/run/axigen.cfg you need to add one of the following blocks depending on the SpamAssassin solution used.
NOTE: Before editing, you should make a backup of your current AXIGEN configuration file.

• For SpamAssassin Bundled, place the following block under "socketFilters = (" line:

    {
        name = "AV:SpamAssassinBundled-bin"
        address = "inet://127.0.0.1:1987"
        protocolFile = "/var/opt/axigen/filters/spamassassin-bin.afsl"
        idleTimeout = 60
        actionOnMatch = pass
        maxConnections = 10
    }

• For system SpamAssassin,  place the following block under "socketFilters = (" line:
  

    {
        name = "AV:SpamAssassin-bin"
        address = "inet://127.0.0.1:783"
        protocolFile = "/var/opt/axigen/filters/spamassassin-bin.afsl"
        idleTimeout = 60
        actionOnMatch = pass
        maxConnections = 10
    }

After adding one of the blocks above, save the configuration file, and reload/restart the AXIGEN service for the changes to take effect. Login to Webadmin interface, go to Security & Filtering menu, AntiVirus and AntiSpam context, and instead of your current active filter you need to enable the one ending in "-bin":

• If you use SpamAssassin you need to enable SpamAssassin-bin
• If you use SpamAssassinBundled you need to enable SpamAssassinBundled-bin
  

NOTE: While using the "-bin" filter and AFSL, the AntiSpam Thresholds will no longer be effective.

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