Mailscanner not catching SPAM but manual run via SA catches i t

Martin Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Nov 22 17:31:17 GMT 2006


Randal, Phil wrote:
> Sometimes it pays to actually test it with debug on and see the
> results...
> 
> For my SA 3.1.7 installation,
> 
>   SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/lib/spamassassin
> 
> is the correct setting, not
> 
>   SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/lib
> 
> Tested with MailScanner --debug-sa and the debug flags set in
> MailScanner.conf.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil, who's amazed he didn't notice this earlier
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin
> Hepworth
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:35 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner not catching SPAM but manual run via SA catches
> it
> 
> Dan Carl 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
>>
> Check the SA paths in MailScanner to make sure you're running the same 
> rules - also check you've only got one perl and one SA installed.
> 
> IF you've run sa-update make sure MS knows about it by setting
> 
> SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/lib
> 
> 
> 
hmm

thats interesting 'cos when we tested it we needed to put in /var/lib 
there.....

what's below the /var/lib/spamassassin directory?

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

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