off-topic spamassassin

[Steve Swaney]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Steve Swaney wrote:
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>> This is a SpamAssassin question but I'm not on the SA list (to many
>> lists as it is :() so if anybody can help I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> The spamassassin lint test issues this warning:
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>> [27341] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: :
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>> The "warn" message is not that helpful but in fairness to SA - most are
>> very helpful.
>>
>> Sorry for the off topic post but any help appreciated.
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> >From the looks of that, you have a line in somewhere in one of your config files
> that contains a single colon character.
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> Personally, I'd start with checking all your /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf files.
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> Matt,
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> Thats why I posted  to this list :)
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>     grep -l "^:" 
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> Showed up the offending line :
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> mail:/etc/mail/spamassassin # grep -l "^:" *
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> 70_sare_adult.cf
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> There was a line that started with ":#"
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> The error message was absolutely accurate! I just didn't parse it correctly.
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> Many thanks - problem solved
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> Steve
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