How to test spam and quarantine?

amnesia

I’d like to test spam and quarantine settings. Is there a way to send a test spam email that will score high enough on rspamd to trigger the filter? I’ve tried sending all kinds of mails with dubious text, but they are all coming from trusted/secure hosts like gmail and aren’t scoring high enough. I tried using the GTUBE, but it gets rejected instantly by the server before it ever even hits rspamd.

chriss

rspamd does bounce an email containing the EICAR string: EICAR_test_file

amnesia

Hm, well I’m having issues with this as well as my sending mail server is rejecting it before it even gets out.

Maybe there is a way to create a custom rule for the spam filter to automatically score say 100 if it detects a certain text in the message body?

chriss

amnesia
I tested using a google workspace account and didn’t experience a problem sending the EICAR test string in an otherwise empty email.
Might be worthwhile creating a ‘burner’ gmail account for testing purposes. This way your email rep on your regular email account also won’t be negatively impacted, nor interfere with your tests.

SimplyCorbett

https://mail.domain.tld/rspamd/#symbols

Search “words” and jack up the score for bad words / bounce words.

You can also edit the global filter maps in the mailcow admin UI and block words that way. Note: This can break things.

Also you can train these emails as spam from within Rspamd and the Quarantine area.

amnesia

SimplyCorbett

The extra bad word scoring did the trick, thanks for the tip.