Can't find SpamAssassin

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Nov 6 10:04:12 GMT 2003


If you have a ruleset controlling the "Use SpamAssassin" option, then it
will always try to load SpamAssassin, as it has no way of knowing for sure
that your rules have disabled it. Set it to "Use SpamAssassin = no" and it
shouldn't insist on SpamAssassin being installed.

At 07:28 06/11/2003, you wrote:
>That's pretty wild. I was running 2.55.x for a long time then this
>started all of the sudden. I had not changed a thing on the box.
>
>I first tried upgrading to 2.60, but still had the same problem. I then
>did as you did, installed from source and now it's working. Is there any
>explanation for this? I'm on MailScanner 4-21.9.
>
>Thanks,
>James
>
>On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:17, Pete russell wrote:
> > Don't know if this applies to you, but this happened to me after
> > installing the SA 2.6 RPMs on RH9 - removed the RPMs, installed from
> > source and all was good.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Mike Kercher
> > Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2003 3:06 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Can't find SpamAssassin
> >
> > You might try reinstalling SA just in case something has gotten
> > corrupted.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of James Pifer
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:09 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Can't find SpamAssassin
> > >
> > > Suddenly late today my mail got backed up. Upon checking the
> > > maillog I found errors that MailScanner can't find
> > > SsamAssassin. I told it not to use SpamAssassin, but
> > > MailScanner wouldn't deliver mail until I rebooted. I tried
> > > re-enabling SpamAssassin, but I'm getting the same error again.
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this? SpamAssassin is still loaded. As a matter
> > > of fact I haven't changed anything.
> > >
> > > I had to disable SpamAssassin in MailScanner.conf so I can
> > > receive mail.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > James
> > >

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