Emails Not Bouncing

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Tue May 11 20:37:38 IST 2004


NateDog wrote:

>>Have you tried spamassassin -D --lint -p
>>/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
>
> Now I get this:
>
> debug: DCCifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found.
> debug: DCC is available: /usr/local/bin/dccproc
>
> So does it need the dccifd socket?

No, it doesn't need it.  The socket is the daemon version of dccfid.  I
have written a FAQ entry about it.

>
> How will I know if it's using it in mail scanner?  I'm not really seeing it
> reference it anywhere in the logs?

You will see it when it it will hit the rule.
>
> And I do want to use bayes!  I thought I was lol.  That stinks.  I found an
> option for autowhitelist but nothing for autolearn.  I'll keep digging to
> see if I can figure out how to turn it off.  I'm guessing once I find out
> how to turn it off I can set use_bayes to 1 right?

Please read the comments in your spam.assassin.conf file.

>
> Sample from my log:
>  is spam, spamhaus-XBL, SBL+XBL, spamcop.net, CBL, SpamAssassin
> (score=12.808, required 4, autolearn=spam, BIZ_TLD 0.78,
> FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO 3.02, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS 0.87, MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR 1.05,
> MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER 0.76, PYZOR_CHECK 0.32, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 2.25,
> RCVD_IN_DSBL 1.10, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.55, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10)
>
> Guess it just depends if DCC finds something for it to output to the log
> right?

Of course.

>
>
> Thanks Ugo.
>
> --
> Nathan Peters
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Emails Not Bouncing
>
>
>
>>NateDog wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Easy if you're using Red Hat or something lol.
>>
>>I think Peter uses only Sun servers.
>>
>>
>>> I'm on SuSE x86_64.  I just
>>>installed DCC and everything seems to install fine.  But when running:
>>>spamassassin -D --lint
>>>
>>>debug: DCCifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found.
>>>debug: DCC is not available: no executable dccproc found.
>>>
>>
>>Have you tried spamassassin -D --lint -p
>>/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>
>>?
>>You could also try MailScnner in debug mode, putting the setting to
>>debug SpamAssassin in MailScanner to on.  This will tell you if
>>MailScanner finds it.
>>
>>BTW, this is all in the MAQ.  You could benefit from reading it I think.
>>   The url is in the footer of every message on this list.  You could
>>also take a look to MailScanner's manual that is out now.
>>http://www.fsl.com/support/MailScanner-Manual-Version-1.0.pdf
>>
>>
>>>So....I'm guessing I'll have to do some symlinks or something?  Or is
>
> there
>
>>>some config file some where that I can edit?
>>>
>>>/usr/local/bin/cdcc
>>>/usr/local/bin/dccproc
>>>/usr/bin/dccm
>>>
>>>Ok.  I just checked the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file.  And it says:
>>>dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
>>>
>>>So my path is correct as far as mail scanner goes.  Wonder if that will
>>>affect how spam assassin uses it since that debug output says that it
>>>doesn't find it?  I guess I'll just turn it on and see what happens :)
>>>Do you do anything with this:  score DCC_CHECK 0.0
>>
>>This disables DCC checks.  Comment it out to use DCC.
>>
>>
>>> Also what do you think
>>>about autolearn?
>>
>>You should not use it with MailScanner. They don't get along very well.
>>  Sorry, I can't give you more details.  You're better off with bayes.
>>
>>
>>>It's showing up in my log file and I just wonder if that's
>>>more user preference or if it's a good idea to keep it on or should I
>
> turn
>
>>>it off?  If I need to turn it off if someone could explain how.  Thanks
>
> :)
>
>>>--
>>>Nathan Peters
>>>
>>>
>>
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