Local AI: the model service production runs, and how to build its model

packaging/local-ai/ holds what runs the AI spam classifier's model on
production's mail host, for the installer's bare-metal mode to use later
(nothing in the installer uses it yet):

- inbuxa-llm.service: llama.cpp's server with Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507
  (Q4_K_M), in the mail network namespace on 127.0.0.1:8080 only, bounded
  to 4 cores and 8 GB. Identical to host1's unit apart from the license
  header.
- build-model.sh: builds the model from Qwen's official weights, checked
  against Hugging Face's checksums, with llama.cpp b11160's converter and
  quantizer, and compares the result with production's SHA-256. Qwen
  publishes no GGUF of this model, so the file that runs is one we made.
  Two builds from the same weights came out byte-identical.
- README.md: what runs and where it came from, a by-hand install, and how
  to undo it.
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# Local AI for spam filtering
The model behind inbuxa's AI spam classifier, run on the same machine as the
mail server, as production runs it. Nothing here is used by the installer
yet: it's the reference for its bare-metal mode, and the record of what runs.
The classifier itself is in inbuxa-server (the `ai-spam-classification`
spec). It's off until an administrator turns it on in inbuxa Admin, under
Settings › Spam Filter › Local AI. The model's opinion is one bounded signal
among many (at most +2 points by default), and a slow or missing model never
holds up mail.
## What runs
| Piece | What |
|---|---|
| Server | llama.cpp `b11160`, the CPU build `llama-b11160-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz` (SHA-256 `48ece242…e435`), in `/opt/llama/b11160` |
| Model | Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 (Apache-2.0), quantized to Q4_K_M: `/opt/llama/models/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507-Q4_K_M.gguf`, SHA-256 `0f5e5250018ea2e4384e8b440f3a51fd1fff31d6694906e63fca3b5abd8a9a28` |
| Service | [`inbuxa-llm.service`](inbuxa-llm.service): in the mail network namespace, on its loopback `127.0.0.1:8080` only, 4 cores and 8 GB at most, 4 slots of 4096 tokens |
The mail server's model entry (`x:AiModel`) points at
`http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/chat/completions` with the model name
`qwen3-4b-instruct-2507`, which is the service's `--alias`. The address is
the mail namespace's own loopback, so message text never leaves the machine.
Measured on production (host1, CPU only): about 1.2 s per message once warm,
4 s for the first; about 4.3 GB of memory.
## The model, built from source
Qwen publishes no GGUF of this model, and the popular ones are third-party
conversions. [`build-model.sh`](build-model.sh) makes it from Qwen's official
weights instead: it checks each file against Hugging Face's published
checksums, converts with llama.cpp's own converter, quantizes to Q4_K_M, and
compares the result with production's SHA-256.
```bash
packaging/local-ai/build-model.sh ~/ai-models
```
## Installing it by hand
On a Debian 13 host whose mail server runs in the `mail` namespace
(`/run/netns/mail`, from `mail-netns.service`):
```bash
apt-get install libgomp1 # llama.cpp's OpenMP runtime
mkdir -p /opt/llama/models
curl -fLO https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11160/llama-b11160-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz
echo "48ece24283876fc3401b737724008c03cbc4c7ba335b6c1aa2a7b6ce2d49e435 llama-b11160-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c
mkdir -p /opt/llama/b11160 && tar -C /opt/llama/b11160 -xzf llama-b11160-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz
install -m 0644 qwen3-4b-instruct-2507-Q4_K_M.gguf /opt/llama/models/
install -m 0644 packaging/local-ai/inbuxa-llm.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable --now inbuxa-llm
ip netns exec mail curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/health # {"status":"ok"}
```
A host without the mail namespace drops `NetworkNamespacePath`,
`After=mail-netns.service` and `Requires=mail-netns.service` from the unit;
the service then listens on the host's loopback, which is where a mail server
on that host reaches it.
## Undoing it
`systemctl disable --now inbuxa-llm`. The classifier then fails fast on every
message and mail flows as before. Turn the classifier off in inbuxa Admin to
stop it trying.