SpamAssassin marks ALL mail as spam

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WITTSEND.COM
Mon Jan 7 14:39:05 GMT 2002


On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:04:46AM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> If you kill the mailscanner process ("ps -fe | grep mailscan" then kill it)
> then start it up with check_mailscanner, what does it print to the console?
> Anything about a lack of configuration text? I got this when I upgraded my
> perl but didn't re-install SpamAssassin afterwards. The perl
> previous-version-searching doesn't work with SpamAssassin.

        Just tried that.  Shut down mailscanner, then enabled spamassassin,
then ran check_mailscanner.  Just got the "Starting virus scanner..."
message and no complaint about configuration text.  I'll leave
spamassassin on for a bit.

> At 12:37 06/01/2002, you wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: MailScanner mailing list On Behalf Of Julian Field
> >> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 1:05 PM
> >> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >> Subject: Re: SpamAssassin marks ALL mail as spam
> >>
> >> As SpamAssassin is saying it is spam, so is my code. I suspect
> >> you have hit
> >> a SpamAssassin bug (I've seen some strange behaviour sometimes too). I
> >> suggest you contact the SpamAssassin guys for help.
> >
> >I think I hit a very strange situation. When I turn of SA in MailScanner
> >and
> >put the SA recipe in my .procmailrc, the mail checks out ok, with both the
> >MailScanner and SA headers:
> >
> >X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean
> >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests=
> >
> >So it's not really SA that marks the mail as spam when I do the test
> >separate from the MailScanner proces.
> >With these results, I don't have anything to 'slap' the SA developers
> >with...
> >
> >I'll try to think of some more things I can test. I will post any results
> >here.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> 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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