question about spam with ispconfig

hi

i have had ispconfig installed for a while now and it is brilliant, but my mates email account gets alot of spam even though the spam filter is on. I have got to enter the email address or *@domain.com in the backlist box. But my email account on the same domain gets 1 or 2 now and then.


any idea what the problem could be.

thanks for any help

paul

 

The problem might be that your mate gets much more emails (in total) than you, and then he of course gets more spam as well.

But you can check your mate's .procmailrc file (it's in his homedir) to see if SpamAssassin is really enabled.

 

hi again

There is no .procmailrc file in my mate home directory, but there is .spamassassin.rc and .user_prefs.rc and a few others. Looking in these two files the .spamassassin.rc has no option saying if it is on or off, but in the .user_prefs.rc there are options has follows: (blacklist) of all the email addresses and domains which i have entered (require score) and (whitelist). Of these i have listed the whitelist is the only one commented out the rest are not.

so does this mean spamassassin is enable.

thanks

paul

 

What's the output of

Code:

grep [I]username[/I] /etc/passwd

?

 

this is the output of the above command:-

web2_user:10002:10002:user:/var/www/web2:/bin/false

thanks

 

Then there must be a .procmailrc file in /var/www/web2.