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

[Dave Duffner - PSCGi]

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:57 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner's SA wants it's Mommy...
>
>
> 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

        Yep, that setting has been in place for quite some time
and even in the Headers it's noting autolearn is disabled.  Even
though it's pointless in the 3.0X version, we've even used that
switch in the mailscanner.conf file to see if that had any effect
or was causing an override of the one you list above - nada.

        Now you mention 'make sure it's off in the "user" MS runs
as that dir?  Can you be a bit more specific as I'm not getting
a grip on how/where that might be?

        If I take it as-is above, you're saying if MS is run as
Root then there's a conf file for just the Root user that needs
that switch as well?  That'd be a new one on me...

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

        Far as I can see, it's doing everything else according to
the settings in that conf file you mention.  The only bug that
seems apparent is that SA isn't run on every e-mail as it should
(and was with previous versions).  Looks like it missed about 10%
of the incoming mail, you can see in the headers that MS handled
it, but there's no SA notes at all.  We may have changed settings
in such a way that it won't modify headers for those messages
with a 0.0 rating, or the MS/SA upgraded versions may do that by
default so that could be a false situation.  But it tags all
messages with an MS info section, just not all with an SA tag.

> 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

        Yep, that I've noticed in the threads.  I'll be looking
forward to that fix, just hope Ensim can handle the integration
as we had to wait until just recently to get their patch to
upgrade it without fouling everything up.

> 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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