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How to install spamassassin to Digital Ocean

Posted on January 13, 2015

Hello and please help!

My emails are getting flooded with SPAM and need to install a spam filter for my Digital Ocean Host / Roundcube Email Server. I was told Spamassassin is a good one to use? How exactly do I install this? Im a complete beginner at how to install this program / where to find it. Please help with a step by step, would really appreciate it! I dont know code…

Thanks! Bryan



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Hello, all

You can follow our tutorial on How To Configure a Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssassin

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassassin

As a side note, here is an interesting read on why you may not want to run your own mail server but rather use an SMTP provider:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

Regards, Alex

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