Spamassassin, mailscanner 3, etc.

[Julian Field]

At 05:41 15/01/2002, you wrote:
>I've been running the same testing and seeing the same results.

<AOL>Me too!</AOL>

I haven't had time to debug SpamAssassin, I know from the docs (and some
sample code supplied by its author) that I'm calling it correctly, and most
of the time it works as it should.

But it still gets it wrong some times. Their compile_now() method
definitely has bugs, it was causing some people's setups to report every
message as spam, and on my own systems was causing it to never read the
preferences file. I took out the call to compile_now() and all those
problems just vanished.

Anyone who feels like debugging SA, you are very welcome to the job!

>   I've
>been trying to narrow it down also.  It's definitely not a timing issue
>since I can pass the same message thru several times on my test box and
>SpamAssassin still returns 0 to mailscanner.  But if you run the cmdline
>program against it, it gets tagged as spam. I want to say that it has
>something to with html formated messages and the perl spamassassin apis
>though I'm trying to figure out how it functions while trying to diag
>the issue.

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