SURBL not working properly in MailScanner 4.35.9 - A FIX?

Alden Levy alden at engineno9inc.com
Wed Nov 10 01:29:49 GMT 2004


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> Hall, Douglas wrote:
>> I may be jumping into this a little late, but I also had a problem with
>> the init.pre file not being found, and therefore the URIBL and SPF rules
>> not working.
>>
>> What fixed it for me was to put the init.pre file into
>> /opt/MailScanner/etc/mail/spamassassin, as this is defined as the
>> "SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir" in the mailscanner.conf.
>>
>> A look at the SpamAssassin.pm module indicates (at least to my Perl
>> illiterate brain) that it checks this directory, if defined, before
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin, and if it exists, never bothers to check
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin for init.pre
>>
>> Anyway, it all works for me now
>>
>> -Douglas

Doshy, Dhawal wrote:
> By Toutatis, you are right..
>
> cd /usr/share/spamassassin/
> ln -s /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre .
> service MailScanner restart
>
> it works for me too..
>
> - dhawal
>
Brilliant!  Thank you!!!!! It solved my problem, as well.  Thanks for the
step by step, Dhawal.

--Alden

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