getting spamassassin to work

[Julian Field]

At 19:32 24/10/2002, you wrote:
> > >Note that there's no SpamScore: header.
> >
> > That's because the score is less than 1. It can't print a negative number
> > of "s" letters.
>
>I thought in this case it might still put in the header with an
>empty value.
>
> > >I just turned off auto white listing and now the test mail just
> > >comes in with a score of 0.
> >
> > This looks like a nasty SA problem. My best advice would be
> > 1) Delete the auto-whitelist (probably in ~root/.spamassassin)
> > 2) Re-install SpamAssassin from the .tar.gz distribution.
>
>Done, and it solved the problem.  It was only a 2.42 to 2.43 upgrade,
>and I didn't do anything different installing 2.43 than I did when
>I installed 2.42. I don't get it.

SpamAssassin 2.42 corrupts the auto-whitelist.

>Anyway, it's working now.  Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions.
>
> > The check_mailscanner script are a pig to write and make work reliably.
> > Unfortunately I don't currently have much option other than to supply
> > something that makes a starting point and leave the rest as an exercise for
> > the reader.
> >
> > If you get better versions working, I would be grateful if I could put them
> > in the distribution.
>
>I'm running in a high availability environment so I need to make
>sure the script is exactly right.  I've got it working, but I want to
>extend it a bit to handle restarts and shutdowns too, then I'll send
>you want I've got.  For most people it's probably needlessly complicated
>but I wanted it to manage (use and clean up) the pid files for clarity.
>
>Is it safe to clean out the incoming directory after mailscanner is
>killed?

Yes.

>   Or will mailscanner finish processing those files when
>it's restarted?

No, it will fetch them from the incoming queue(s) again. MailScanner itself
doesn't store any "state" between runs at all.
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