spam filtering ceased

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 12:59 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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> Have you considered just upgrading to the latest versions of MailScanner 
> and spamassassin?

I've considered it, but then this is a production system, and I've never
upgraded or installed MailScanner before...

> It might well be the quickest way out of your trouble. But first make 
> sure /usr/bin/perl points to the latest version of Perl that is 
> installed on your machine. You don't want to install in 1 perl and then 
> run another.

Hmmmmm:

        meter-root) type -all perl
        perl is /dcs/bin/perl
        perl is /bin/perl
        perl is /usr/bin/perl
        meter-root) /dcs/bin/perl -v
        
        This is perl, v5.8.1 built for sun4-solaris
        
        Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall
        
        Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
        GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
        
        Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
        this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
        Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
        
        meter-root) /usr/bin/perl -v
        
        This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
        
        Copyright 1987-1999, Larry Wall
        
        Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
        GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.
        
        Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
        this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
        Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
        
        meter-root) 

> If you haven't got "MailScanner -v" working, then you have a pretty 
> ancient version. If your SA is that old then an upgrade to the latest 
> would help too. Upgrade SA using the ClamAV+SA package that I distribute 
> on the MailScanner downloads page. It will save you a lot of time than 
> doing it by hand.

I like the idea of upgrading, but having never done a mailscanner
upgrade or install, it doesn't sound safe enough to be a quick fix.  I'd
have to go configure the software on some other test host first.

Are there any other possibilities?

> Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> >Hi folks.
> >        
> >I looked around on gmane a bit for a solution to this, but I really only
> >found someone with the same question and no answers.  Googling for this
> >one seems messy, as I'm not sure what keywords to use this time.
> >
> >Anyway, I run a mail server, and someone else was tasked with setting up
> >mailscanner on it.  He's on vacation, and doesn't appear to have any doc
> >written up.
> >
> >This mail server, I'm told, has suddenly stopped doing antispam
> >filtering.
> >
> >I tried killing and restarting all the sendmail's and mailscanner, but
> >that's not (necessarily) helping.
> >
> >I'd really benefit from two things:
> >        
> >        1) A decision procedure for determining if antispam filtering is
> >        functional again.  For example, can I just search for a recent message
> >        with antispam headers, or is it more complicated than that?
> >        
> >        2) A procedure for determining what happened to the antispam
> >        filtering
> >        
> >I attempted "MailScanner -v" as mentioned in another post, but that just
> >said something about configuration file -v not existing.
> >
> >I also attempted the lint-related spamassassin command mentioned in the
> >same post, but I recall the person who set this up saying that
> >spamassassin is used via a perl module, and I have no spamassassin's on my
> >$PATH.
> >
> >Suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
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