Spamassissin compleatly ballsed - what to do?

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Colin Alston wrote:
> My spamassissin is compleatly stuffed.
>
> I dont really know when or how it happend, possibly someone did a
> package upgrade without informing me - these things happens.
>
> Now however I get some very strange behaviour in Mailscanner.
>
> Either this
>
> X-Slipgate-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-Slipgate-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=9.881,
>
> Why on earth is it marked "Found to be clean" with a SA score that is
> way over the mark limit?

clean = virus free, so this is correct.

>
> My High Scoring spam is set to 10.0 and Spam is set to 5.0, this should
> be marked as spam surely?

It is, on the SpamCheck line.  ...: spam, SpamAsssassin...

>
> Or in the worst case I get this.
>
> X-Slipgate-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-Slipgate-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out)
>
> This system used to work great and I loved it till a few weeks ago! No
> config changes have been made to MailScanner, what could be causing this?

You should check the MAQ page (see url in the footer of this message)
for optimizations.

>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Colin Alston <karnaugh at karnaugh.za.net>
>
> About the use of language:
>  "It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe.  It is
>  equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead."
>   -- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975. (Perl did not exist at the time.)
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