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title: 'Amavis Troubleshooting'
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markdown: 'https://docs.danami.com/warden/troubleshooting/amavis.md'
date: '2026-09-25'
description: 'Greylisting must be disabled on the recipient domain before running these tests. Spam Filter Testing To test the spam filter, it is necessary to send a Gtube test spam email using the command below (Replacing emailonserver@example.com with a real email account on the server). If the Anti-…'
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# Amavis Troubleshooting

> > > > > Greylisting must be disabled on the recipient domain before running these tests.

## Spam Filter Testing

To test the spam filter, it is necessary to send a Gtube test spam email using the command below (Replacing <emailonserver@example.com> with a real email account on the server). If the Anti-spam is working correctly you will see it listed in the maillog and in Warden log under `Warden` -> `Logs` -> `Message Log`. While testing, note that Gtube test email gives +1000 scores to spam. So, even if a mailbox is in the whitelist, mail still be detected as spam because whitelisted email gets -100 scores.

#### Disable Greylisting

If greylisting is enabled then you must disable it on the recipient domain before running these tests.

```
/usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing --update-domain example.com -status off
```

#### AlmaLinux / CloudLinux / RHEL / Rocky Linux

```
yum install s-nail
echo "XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X" | s-nail -S v15-compat -S smtp-auth=none -S mta=smtp://localhost -S from="sender@tester.com" -s "Spam test example" emailonserver@example.com
```

#### Debian / Ubuntu

```
apt-get install s-nail
echo "XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X" | s-nail -S v15-compat -S smtp-auth=none -S mta=smtp://localhost -S from="sender@tester.com" -s "Spam test example" emailonserver@example.com
```

## Restarting Amavis

#### AlmaLinux / CloudLinux / RHEL / Rocky Linux

```
// restart amavis
systemctl restart amavisd

// amavis log file
tail -f /var/log/maillog  

// amavisd-milter restart 
systemctl restart amavisd-milter

// amavisd-milter log file
tail -f /var/log/maillog 

```

#### Debian / Ubuntu

```
// restart amavis
systemctl restart amavis

// amavis log file
tail -f /var/log/maillog 

// amavisd-milter restart 
systemctl restart amavisd-milter

// amavisd-milter log file
tail -f /var/log/maillog 
```

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