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

[Martin Hepworth]

Dave Duffner - PSCGi wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
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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...
>

Check in ~root/.spamassassin and make sure it's getting overridden in
one of the files there. Also worth checking in /etc/mail/spamassassin as
well in case ensim is doing something odd.

Also make sure that MailScanner.conf has the correct settings (location)
for the spam.assassin.prefs.conf.

a "spamassasson -p /path-to/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -D --lint" run as
the mailscanner user (root/whatever) should tell you if AWL is getting
turned on somehow.

>
>>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.
>
>

check for timeouts in the logs, also compare you old and new
MailScanner.conf. Are you sure there's no MailScanner whitelisting going
on via rules sets?

>>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.
>
>


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


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