Some .cf files not being used by SpamAssassin under MailScanner?

[Scott Silva]

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Matt Kettler spake the following on 9/16/2005 8:45 AM:
> Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> 
>>Just a small suggestion, what if you "cat lotto.cf >> local.cf (or
>>spam.assassin.prefs.conf)" and test out mailscanner.. won't help you to
>>really solve the problem but will at the least identify if the '.cf'
>>file is not being read at all OR mailscanner can't read the lotto rules.
> 
> 
> I tried making ALL my rules into one file. I moved all my .cf files out and did:
> 
> cat * >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/monolithic.cf
> 
> and then reloaded mailscanner.
> 
> Still the problem persists. SA honors the lotto rules, mailscanner does not
> 
> 
>>Also check some basic things like ownership / permissions on lotto.cf
>>(already sure you've done that) 
> 
> 
> I checked all that, everything is world readable.
> 
> Currently:
> # ls -l /etc/mail/spamassassin/
> total 352
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       353254 Sep 16 11:31 monolithic.cf
> #
> 
> 
> 
>>assuming you are running --lint (or -D)
>>
>>>as root and mailscanner as your mta id / group.
> 
> 
> Actually, I'm running both as root, which is typical in a sendmail environment.
> 
> 
> # ps xu |grep MailScanner
> root      9890  0.0  3.3 22180 17420 ?       S    11:29   0:00 /usr/bin/perl
> -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> 
> <snip, copies of all the children, also running as root>
> 
Do you have any rule names over I believe 22 or 26 characters?
That seems to be a limit I ran into a while back.


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