Help - I'm a newbie to Mac

Question

I don't know Mac or Unix, but I am in the process of setting up a Xserve for handling e-amil. What should I do about spam? The GUI is doing nothing to block spam. I downloaded and installed spamtrainer...but I don't know how to configure it. I also need to do some whitelisting and setting up auto reply for when I go on vacation. I appreicate any and all help you can give!
Xserve dual 2GHz w/ 2 GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Answer 1

Ok. I hate to piecemeal this out, but it's easier to take this one step at a time.
Let's confirm that your content filter (spam and virus protection) is running. Open Server Admin and click on "Mail" and then choose "Logs" from the bottom tab.
Use the "Show" pop-up tab at the bottom to choose: "Junk Mail/Virus Scanning"
You'll need to look over the section of the amavis.log that is published here. This is where amavis reports your spam (spamassassin) and virus (clamav) processes. Just check here to make sure things look good (i.e., not-getting-anything or getting a bunch of error messages is a bad thing).
If things look good, then use the "Show" pop-up tab at the bottom and choose "Virus Database Updates." This is your freshclam.log. This reports on the process of keeping your clamav (virus) database ... fresh (get it ... freshclam).
You should see some messages here that indicate that your main.cvd is up to date, your daily.cvd is updated, etc. Don't get nervous about the "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!" That's normal. Just ignore.
If all of that looks good, then we can get your SpamAssassin set-up fine-tuned with spamtrainer.
It sounds like you've already installed Pterobyte's spamtrainer (using his GUI installer package). However, before we start using spamtrain, let's do one quick thing. Open Work Group Manager (WGM) and create two new users. Name one "junkmail" and name the other "notjunkmail" For both users, click the "Mail" tab at the top of of the right screen, and "Enable" their mail and give them both POP and IMAP mail access.
Save those users.
Now ... let's go set up spamtrainer (which you already installed using Pterobyte's installer).
Open Terminal and issue "sudo spamtrainer -f" and hit return.
(you will be asked for a password)
Then issue "sudo spamtrainer -a"
Then issue "sudo spamtrainer -i"
(when you run the -i, you need to have an idea as to what time at night you want to have spamtrainer run each day. I use something like 3:00, but it doesn't really make much difference.)
The next step will be to tighten up your Postfix restrictions and do a little clean-up in your main.cf file, but let's do that after you do the checks and steps above. One quick question, do you know how to use a unix-based text editor like vi or pico to edit files?