Spamassassin woes

[Scott Silva]

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Martin Hepworth spake the following on 10/7/2005 12:59 AM:
> Scott
> 
> Oh and 
> 
> SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> 
> As well :-)
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth 
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Scott Silva
> Sent: 06 October 2005 20:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Spamassassin woes
> 
> Scott Silva spake the following on 10/6/2005 11:11 AM:
> 
>>Julian Field spake the following on 10/6/2005 10:37 AM:
>>
>>
>>>Scott Silva wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Scott Silva spake the following on 10/6/2005 9:41 AM:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Finally!
>>>>>>After an extended session in CPAN, things seem OK. I still don't know
>>>>>>which module was tanked, but it's fixed!
>>>>>>Thank you to all!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And greeting from California, USA.
>>>>>>Where any actor can aspire to Governor!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>>Spoke too soon!
>>>>>Although lint tests all work, MailScanner isn't adding the URIBL scores
>>>>>into messages.
>>>>>If I take the same message and run it through lint, it shows up.
>>>>>I guess I'm going to reinstall MailScanner now.
>>>>>I think I will diff the config files for the two machines again first,
>>>>>just to make sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Running MailScanner in debug mode gets entries like this;
>>>>
>>>>rules: failed to run URIBL_BLACK test, skipping:
>>>>      (Can't locate object method "check_uridnsbl" via package
>>>>"Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus" at
>>>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line
>>>>2581.
>>>>
>>>>But if I pipe the same message into a lint, it works fine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>You don't have 2 Perl installations do you?
>>>You will need to have added
>>>loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
>>>
>>>to your init.pre file in /etc/mail/spamassassin, or else the SURBL stuff
>>>won't work at all.
>>>
>>
>>One perl, and I have the line to load the plugin.
>>Can't figure out why I can lint a message as root, and get different
>>results than MailScanner running as root.
>>That should eliminate any path or permission problems.
>>
>>
> 
> I have found the problem.
> For some reason, the local rules directory is getting ignored and either
> MailScanner or spamassassin is looking in /usr/etc/mail/spamassassin
> instead of /etc/mail/spamassassin
> The working system had that directory, and the non working system didn't.
> Making a symlink seems to have cured the non-working system, but now I
> need to find out why this happened.
> All my config files have the proper paths in them, so I do not know
> where this /usr/etc/mail/spamassassin came from.
> 
> 
This was blank as the default seemed to be the proper directory, but I
guess time changes all.


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