mailscanner not calling spamassassin?

Fri Nov 26 12:02:59 GMT 2004

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ok heres what it gave me:
Its confusing as it seems to be running the learner before it checks the
message. it then continues to check each part of the message and give it
avalue of 0. Then spamassassin has a problem locking the bayes db. it
looks like its doing everything in the wrong order.

Starting MailScanner...
In Debugging mode, not forking...
debug: Score set 0 chosen.
debug: running in taint mode? no
SA bayes lock is /var/lib/MailScanner/bayes.lock
Bayes lock is at /var/lib/MailScanner/bayes.lock
debug: ignore: test message to precompile patterns and load modules
debug: using "/etc/MailScanner/rules" for default rules dir
debug: using "/etc/MailScanner/rules" for site rules dir
debug: using "/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf" for user prefs file
debug: bayes: 1117 tie-ing to DB file R/O
/var/lib/MailScanner/bayes/bayes_toks
debug: bayes: 1117 tie-ing to DB file R/O
/var/lib/MailScanner/bayes/bayes_seen
debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2
debug: Score set 3 chosen.
debug: Initialising learner
debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running uri tests; score so far=0
debug: uri tests: Done uriRE
debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running meta tests; score so far=0
debug: is spam? score=0 required=3.75 tests=
SpamAssassin: oops! still tied/locked to bayes DBs, untie'ing
debug: bayes: 1117 untie-ing
debug: bayes: 1117 untie-ing db_toks
debug: bayes: 1117 untie-ing db_seen
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=67.15.36.4
rdns=server21.fastbighost.com helo=server21.fastbighost.com
by=scruffy.realex.ie ident= ]
debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no
debug: is DNS available? 0
debug: received-header: cannot use DNS, do not trust any hosts from here on
debug: received-header: relay 67.15.36.4 trusted? no
debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running uri tests; score so far=0
debug: uri tests: Done uriRE
debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running meta tests; score so far=0
debug: is spam? score=0 required=3.75 tests=
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=195.245.230.131
rdns=mail78.messagelabs.com helo=mail78.messagelabs.com
by=scruffy.realex.ie ident= ]
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=194.69.198.39 rdns=efwdb01.aib.ie
helo= by=server-6.tower-78.messagelabs.com ident= ]
debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no
debug: is DNS available? 0
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=10.8.22.86 rdns= helo=
by=efwdb01.aib.ie ident= ]
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=10.32.4.76 rdns=b11127-gx270
helo= by=sims.isec.aib.ie ident= ]
debug: received-header: cannot use DNS, do not trust any hosts from here on
debug: received-header: relay 195.245.230.131 trusted? no
debug: received-header: relay 194.69.198.39 trusted? no
debug: received-header: relay 10.8.22.86 trusted? no
debug: received-header: relay 10.32.4.76 trusted? no
debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running uri tests; score so far=0
debug: uri tests: Done uriRE
debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running meta tests; score so far=0
debug: is spam? score=0 required=3.75 tests=
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=161.58.229.253
rdns=newsvendor.com helo=newsvendor.com by=scruffy.realex.ie ident= ]
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=193.203.152.4
rdns=B-152-4.cust.iol.ie helo=webccssmtp.ccs.ie by=newsvendor.com ident= ]
debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no
debug: is DNS available? 0
debug: received-header: parsed as [ ip=223.0.1.127 rdns= helo=Tonylaptop
by=webccssmtp.ccs.ie ident= ]
debug: received-header: cannot use DNS, do not trust any hosts from here on
debug: received-header: relay 161.58.229.253 trusted? no
debug: received-header: relay 193.203.152.4 trusted? no
debug: received-header: relay 223.0.1.127 trusted? no
debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running uri tests; score so far=0
debug: uri tests: Done uriRE
debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0
debug: running meta tests; score so far=0
debug: is spam? score=0 required=3.75 tests=
/etc/MailScanner/wrapper/trend-wrapper: /pack/trend/bin/vscan: No such
file or directory
/etc/MailScanner/wrapper/trend-wrapper: exec: /pack/trend/bin/vscan:
cannot execute: No such file or directory
Stopping now as you are debugging me.

Brendan Cody-Kenny | brendan.codykenny at realexpayments.com
Network Administrator
Realex Payments

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Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Brendon
>
>
> sorry need to be more specific....
>
> stop MailScanner
>
> edit the MailScanner.conf
>
> run check_mailscanner
>
> you'll get a nice dump of what it's trying to so with each
> message...preferable run check_mailscanner as the mailscanner user so
> all permissions are consistent...
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Brendan Cody-Kenny wrote:
>
>> spamassassin -D --lint does not return anything interesting when run as
>> the mailscanner user.
>> both debugs are turned on in MailScanner.conf and check_mailscanner
>> returns:
>>
>> MailScanner running with pid 21667
>>
>>
>> I cannot figure out what the problem is so I am now trying to add in a
>> third mail directory queue. so mailscanner dumps the mail into this
>> "middle" queue, and then i run a cron job to run spamassassin on the
>> mail and dump it into the "out" queue. This is awkward and i am not sure
>> what format that mailscanner is expecting the mail in. the mail dumped
>> into the "in" queue consists of two files, a header and data file
>> (ending in -H and -D respectively). I am sure spamassassin is expecting
>> the mail in one single message. could this have anything to do with my
>> problem?
>>
>>
>> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>
>>> Brendan Cody-Kenny wrote:
>>>
>>>> I remedied the line in spam.assassin.prefs.conf that was causing the
>>>> debug error line. The debug error message is not shown and the
>>>> behavior
>>>> of MS/SA has not changed. The use of dcc will not help explain why
>>>> MS is
>>>> not getting results from SA. If Sa called from the command line is
>>>> returning a value then the same value should be returned to MS.
>>>> From the
>>>> results of strace on MS I could see that MS is calling the SA perl
>>>> scripts. They dont return proper values. Is there specific
>>>> configuration
>>>> files for these scripts?
>>>>
>>> Brendan
>>>
>>> are you callingthe spamassassin -D --lint as the user that MailScanner
>>> is running as???
>>>
>>> also have you tried turning on both debug options in the
>>> MailScanner.conf and running check_mailscanner to see if it gives you
>>> more clues??
>>>
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>>> Senior Systems Administrator
>>> Solid State Logic Ltd
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