Can't find SpamAssassin

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Nov 6 13:55:38 GMT 2003


At 13:40 06/11/2003, you wrote:
>Let me get this straight. If you have "Use SpamAssassin = no" it will
>still use it if it can, otherwise it won't?

If you have Use SpamAssassin = no, then it shouldn't attempt to load SA at all.


>Thanks,
>James
>
>On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 05:04, Julian Field wrote:
> > 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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> > Julian Field
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