Problem after installing SpamAssassin on MailScanner

[Martin Hepworth]

Oliver

you need to install the latest MS (or at least 4.34) for it to work with
  SA3.x. The SA 3.x API is different from the 2.x so you'll need to upgrade.


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Oliver Hookins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed SpamAssassin 3.0.1 on MailScanner 4.21 and
> configured MailScanner to use it, but after restarting MailScanner all
> hell broke loose. The following messages were in the /var/log/maillog:
>
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Config: calling custom end
> function InternalActions
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Shutting down internal accounts
> list
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Config: calling custom end
> function InternalActions
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Shutting down internal accounts
> list
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Config: calling custom end
> function InternalActions
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24601]: Shutting down internal accounts
> list
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24535]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
> Dec  9 16:42:08 gw1 MailScanner[24576]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
>
> I am not the one who set up MailScanner originally so I don't know what
> this InternalActions function is or what it should be doing. The
> following was in the /var/log/messages:
>
> Dec  9 16:42:12 gw1 MailScanner: MailScanner shutdown succeeded
> Dec  9 16:42:13 gw1 MailScanner: sendmail shutdown succeeded
> Dec  9 16:42:14 gw1 MailScanner: sendmail shutdown succeeded
> Dec  9 16:42:16 gw1 MailScanner:  succeeded
> Dec  9 16:42:19 gw1 last message repeated 2 times
> Dec  9 16:45:48 gw1 root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 29 with
> signal 0
> Dec  9 16:46:28 gw1 last message repeated 4 times
> Dec  9 16:47:38 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:48:48 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:49:58 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:51:08 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:52:18 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:53:29 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:54:39 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:55:49 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:56:59 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:58:09 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 16:59:19 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
> Dec  9 17:00:29 gw1 last message repeated 7 times
>
> Can anyone tell me why this might be happening? I had to unconfigure
> SpamAssassin from the MailScanner.conf and restart it before it would
> work again. It was producing these errors constantly between when
> MailScanner restarted and when the problem was discovered the next day.
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
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