Can't get spam checking working?

[Gerry Doris]

Hmmm, I think that I mis-understood what would be displayed when spam
wasn't detected.  I thought that there would be a header line (like when
the message is scanned for virus') added in every message not just the
spam messages.

I get very little spam.  I have been adding every site/sender of spam to
my procmailrc file for a long time.  These go directly to /dev/null.
Since I have a home network I can get away with this.  The end result is
that I don't actually get to see very much non-solicted emails.

However, I have another problem :(.  The new version of mailscanner seems
to stop working after a short time.  I've gone back to version 2.6 and am
using spamassassin in procmailrc.  That works fine while I try and figger
out what is going wrong.

I've completely removed mailscanner and re-installed several times but it
hasn't fixed anything so I'll have to dig deeper.  It doesn't seem to
matter whether I have spam detection turned on or not.  After a short time
emails just aren't sent or delivered.  It looks like they just sit in the
queue waiting.

Tomorrow I'll try taking this one step at a time to try and isolate what
is happening.

Gerry


On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> At 03:32 05/01/2002, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> You won't see it execute anything with "top". It just calls the perl code,
> it doesn't crank up any binaries to do it (much too slow and heavyweight).
>
> >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?
>
> Nope. It's written in perl.
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