Mailscanner not catching SPAM but manual run via SA catches it

Dan Carl danc at bluestarshows.com
Fri Nov 10 20:47:33 GMT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Mailscanner not catching SPAM but manual run via SA catches it


> On 10/11/06, Dan Carl <danc at bluestarshows.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm perplexed,
> > Today I took a spam email from my inbox that got through Mailscanner and
> > saved it to my mail server.
> > I then ran it though spamassassin(spamassassin -t test.eml) and it
caught it
> > as SPAM.
> > What's up with that??
> >
> > Just yesterday I upgraded to the latest version of Mailscanner (thanks
> > volunteers)
> > because a lot of spam was getting through. After many hours of work I
also
> > installed the Fuzzy OCR plugin.
> >
> > Mailscanner appears to be working fine and using spamassassin.
> > My maillog shows lines this:
> > MailScanner[7707]: SpamAssassin cache hit for message kAAFfqxU010369
> >
> > Thanks in advance
I check the conf and
SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/lib
is correct as Martin stated in previous post

> Do the "spamassassin --lint" and "spamassassin -D --lint" as the user
> you run your MTA as. Same result?
spamassassin --lint yeilds no output
spamassassin -D --lint
snipid
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v312.pre
[28023] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007" for sys rules
pre files
[28023] dbg: config: read file
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org.pre
[28023] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007" for default
rules dir
[28023] dbg: config: read file
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org.cf
[28023] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr.cf
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
[28023] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf

> If you've upgraded SA, did you run the sa-update after that?
I ran sa-update
> Does it look like MailScanners instance of SA is finding/using the correct
> /var/lib/spamassassin/<version>...?
>
sorry not sure how to verify this.

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