MailScanner's SA wants it's Mommy...

[Martin Hepworth]

Dave

in spam.assassin.prefs.conf make sure AWL is OFF, that should be enough
to cancel anything. Also make sure that it's off in the user MailScanner
runs as .spamassassin dir.

use_auto_whitelist      0


What about other settings, is that OK for spamassassin - ie obeying the
spam.assassin.prefs.conf????

AWL in 3.0x is a bit of a PITA, quite q few people have trouble with it,
and I thinks lots of things have been fixed for the upcoming 3.1 release.



--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Dave Duffner - PSCGi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>         Same Bat Time, same Bat Station kids...
>
>         Reason this is going here is because this is
> MailScanner calling up SpamAssassin, we've discussed
> this before but now I'm totally baffled.
>
>         Julian, my copy of MS/SA wants you so bad it
> just can't let go.  It's AWL is so upset that I won't
> let it play with you anymore that it's gone AWOL and
> on the rampage randomly.
>
>         We've finally pinned down the fact that in the
> Ensim implementation of the MS/SA/ClamAV setup
> (MS 4.63, SA 3.XX on a Linux FC1 base) puts the AWL
> file for each mail account in that account's .spamassassin
> directory.  That was fine, wiped them out so that there
> was no AWL file to refer to.
>
>         Turned AWL off in all the locations ever posted
> here in the List, checked it once again after a recent
> upgrade of Ensim (as they like to screw things up in a
> blow-it-all-away format vs. selective upgrades) and
> it's stating autolearn, AWL, etc. are all shut down.
>
>         That was working fine for about a week, then I
> noted the AWL was back just on Julian's posts here.  That
> part we've never been able to determine as to why it just
> likes Julian's posts, but it does.  It's obsessed with
> them.
>
>         So I check again this morning and find we've gone
> from an AWL 0.0 adjustment to now a 0.9 as it's building
> that file up again based on the fact Julian posts quite
> a bit here (which is completely normal).  It's rebuilt
> the AWL file in the account I use for this List.
>
>         I checked other posts here, some seem to get
> skipped in checking as has been mentioned here recently.
> Can live with that part as the percentage is low.  But
> other posts, even from those who post quite a bit never
> get that AWL tag or adjustment.
>
>         Any clues on this?  I'm just about bonkers with it.
>
>       David J. Duffner
>       President
>       PSCGi
>       Paradise Shore Communications Group
>       www.pscginternet.com
>
>
>
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