spamassassin container

SpamAssassin is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as "spam".

• Guide
• Data persistence
• Supported environment variables
• Volumes
• SpamAssassin Documentation

Guide

The command to run this container is:

podman run -d --rm --name spamassassin -v /srv/spamassassin/etc:/etc/spamassassin -p 783:783 registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/spamassassin

This will run spamd on port 783 to classify emails. Admin provided configuration files in /etc/spamassassin will be merged at startup.

The rules are updated at every start of the container.

Data persistence

The updated database is not stored in a persistence way, it will be updated at every start again. Except a volume for /var/lib/spamassassin is created and provided.

Supported environment variables:

• DEBUG=0|1 Enables debug mode
• TZ Timezone to use

Volumes

• /var/lib/spamassassin Store the updated rules
• /etc/spamassassin Additional local configuration files

Spamassassin documentation

To read the current spamassassin confiuration file documentation:

podman run registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/spamassassin man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf