MailScanner + SA3 + SURBL not registering.

[Steve Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Dean Jones
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner + SA3 + SURBL not registering.
>
> 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.
>

There is a command in MailScanner that turns SpamAssassin off;

        Use SpamAssassin = yes

But if you have SpamAssassin turned on in MS and the test above works,
MailScanner should run the exactly as the test does. How are you sure thst
MS is not running the tests?

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com




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