MailScanner + SA3 + SURBL not registering.

Dean Jones dean at SAHRA.ARIZONA.EDU
Thu Sep 30 20:15:54 IST 2004


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Steve Swaney wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Dean Jones
>>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 2:08 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: MailScanner + SA3 + SURBL not registering.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am having an odd problem and wanted to see if anyone else was having
>>it, or could possibly point me in the proper direction.
>>
>>If i manually run a test email through
>>spamassassin -D --test < test.email.that.hits.surbl
>>the SURBL checks work just fine.
>>But when Mailscanner is running those checks don't activate.
>>
>>MailScanner version 4.33.3, SA 3.0, perl 5.8.4
>>
>>RBL checks are working fine as well as Bayes.
>>So Net::DNS isn't my problem...
>>MailScanner appears to be reading my local.cf files as well since i can
>>change options and the results appear (aside from SURBL options which do
>>nothing)
>>
>>Any clues?
>>thanks
>>
>
> Try running the command below as the user who is running MailScanner,
> typically root or postfix:
>
> spamassassin -D -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --test <
> test.email.that.hits.surbl
>
> Note that your path to spam.assassin.prefs.conf may vary.
>
> Steve
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> www.fsl.com
> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>

Doing the command that you suggested manages to make the SURBL checks work.

It almost as if there is a spamassassin option in MailScanner.conf that
turns it off.

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