Where do I start debugging?

[mikea]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:19:49PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> Ok, so now I have some spam coming to my filtering domain, but mailscanner
> is behaving unexpectedly and I'm not sure where to look in order to figure
> out why.
>
> I have Log Spam = yes and logging is showing up in syslog, but I'm hoping
> there's more logging going somewhere else I'm not aware of.
>
> I've discovered (by reversing the my work in order till everything worked
> again) that these two statements in MailScanner.conf cause it to do bad
> things - messages seem to disappear into the void.  Perhaps I should mention
> that this is version 4.21-9.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Spam Actions = attachment
> High Scoring Spam Actions = attachment

This was discussed earlier this week; you need to to use
                    "attachment deliver"
to have the spam turned into an attachment *and* delivered.

> If I change those back to the default (deliver), then I successfully get
> message subjects tagged as spam, but I'd prefer to have MailScanner
> repackage the messages as attachments.
>
> When I have the actions set to 'attachment', sometimes I even get the syslog
> message that says "actions are attachment".  Usually I just get "Spam
> Checks: Starting" and "Virus and Content Scanning: Starting", followed by
> "Uninfected: Delivered" and then sendmail's log entry stating it delivered
> the message.
>
> Most troubling is that even though sendmail logs an entry stating it handed
> off the message, the message doesn't arrive.  Not even sure how that could
> be related to mailscanner...

Which of the two sendmails? The inbound sendmail or the outbound one?
How about a set of maillog lines showing complete processing of a
piece of E-mail, from A to Z?

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Mike Andrews
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Tired old sysadmin since 1964