SpamAssassin Could not be found

[Alessandro Bianchi]

Pete

I had the very same problem with the rpm on RH 9.

Downloaded the source and compiled it and everything went fine.

Hope this helps

Alessandro Bianchi

> I had postfix 2.6, red hat 9, mailscanner, mailwatch and the default
> RH9
> spam assassin installed and all working nicely. I stoped the
> mailscanner
> service and did an upgrade of spamassassin using the RPMs and rpm -Fvh
> installing perl-spamassassin, spamassassin and spamassassin-tools.
>
> RPM installation appeared to work fine.
>
> But since restarting Mailscanner SA no longer works and I see the
> following log entries, and lots of them
>
> ervice error for name=eatathome.com.au type=MX: Host not found, try
> again)
> Nov  1 17:33:45 localhost MailScanner[2152]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.24-5 starting...
> Nov  1 17:33:45 localhost MailScanner[2152]: Config: calling custom
> init
> function MailWatchLogging
> Nov  1 17:33:45 localhost MailScanner[2152]: Initialising database
> connection
> Nov  1 17:33:45 localhost MailScanner[2152]: Finished initialising
> database connection
> Nov  1 17:33:45 localhost MailScanner[2152]: SpamAssassin installation
> could not be found
>
> Is there anything I must do to point mailscanner at spamassassin? Or a
> different install process to use latest SA?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pete