Can't get spam checking working?

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WITTSEND.COM
Sun Jan 6 15:53:24 GMT 2002


On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> At 03:52 06/01/2002, you wrote:
> >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.

> No, only just in actual spam. It doesn't say anything when it hasn't got
> anything to say :-)

> >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.

        I've also seen this happening.

> At this point is the mailscanner process still running? What's the last few
> mailscanner lines in your maillog when this happens?

        For me at least, the MailScanner process is gone.

        Last MailScanner messages I see in maillog is "Scanning x messages,
xxx bytes".  I restart the MailScanner by hand and get the same message
(generally same x messages and xxx bytes) and if often continues.  Last
night, I had to restart it 6 times in the same spot (i.e. I looked after
starting it and it was gone again) but then it worked and was running
this morning when I got up.  So it seems to be "non-deterministic" in
some way.  Sendmail processes continue to run even after the mailscanner
process dumps.

> You may well need to upgrade your version of Perl, a few people are seeing
> Perl core-dump due to internal bugs in Perl itself.

        Because I installed SpamAssassin and used CPAN, I ended up with
Perl upgraded to 5.6.1 anyways.  I've currently got SpamAssassin disabled
in the MailScanner script because of the errors (tagging all messages)
being reported and discussed in the other thread on this list.

> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

        Mike
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