Can't get spam checking working?

[Gerry Doris]

Well, I've been having all kinds of problems trying to get spam detection
working in MailScanner.  I eventually messed up everything so badly that I
went back to the 2.6 version and started again.

On my system I have been totally unable to get any kind of internal spam
screening running with either the 2.6 or the 3.0 versions.  Watching top I
can see that sendmail and mailscanner run but spamassassin is never
executed by mailscanner.  Even without using spamassassin mailscanner
doesn't tag any emails no matter what they contain.  However, when I
enable spamassassin using procmail it runs perfectly.

I have bounced mail off external mail servers for testing.  It doesn't
matter what I send to myself it is never flagged by mailscanner's internal
spam detection.  I have commented out the MAPS-RBL+ site and only have
ORDB enabled.

I am using an old but functional 486 system to play with this.  Could it
be that the mailscanner spam code isn't compatible with a 486 cpu?

By the way, this isn't a big deal as I only have a home network with four
systems and three users including me!  I just want to see if I can get it
to work!!!

Gerry


On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> At 21:07 04/01/2002, you wrote:
> >I have never seen any indication that spam checking is operational with my
> >install of mailscanner.  That includes the 2.6 version as well as the new
> >3.01 version.  The virus checking certainly works as it picked up a virus
> >just last night.
> >
> >I installed spamassassin yesterday and it also doesn't seem to be called
> >by mailscanner...at least there is no header being added regarding spam
> >hits.  On the other hand when I activate spamassassin in my procmailrc
> >file it does add the spam headers.
> >
> >I have edited the mailscanner.conf file turning on all spam options.  I'm
> >now at a loss of where to go from here??
>
> You should just get the X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: header, none of the other
> SpamAssassin headers will appear. Try sending the SpamAssassin sample spam
> message through it, that should show you.
>
> What RBL's are you using? the MAPS-RBL+ is only available to JANET sites
> unless you pay MAPS yourself, and the only other one I have left in is ORDB
> (I think). Find an open relay in ORDB and send yourself some mail via it.
> If you can't find an open relay, drop me a line and I'll dig one out for
> you to try.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>

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