Spam slipping through

[Randal, Phil]

You're possibly not picking up the sa-updated rules when running
SpamAssassin from within MailScanner.  Running spamassassin from the
command line will use them.

At some point SpamAssassin was fixed so that the local state dir
included /spamassassin, e.g. /var/lib/spamassassin, and not /var/lib.

See http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4952#c11 .

Try amending your MailScanner.conf to read like my config below (which
has been tested and verified to use the updated rules):

# The rules created by the "sa-update" tool are searched for here.
# This directory contains the 3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org
# directory structure beneath it.
# Only un-comment this setting once you have proved that the sa-update
# cron job has run successfully and has created a directory structure
under
# the spamassassin directory within this one and has put some *.cf files
in
# there. Otherwise it will ignore all your current rules!
# The default location may be /var/opt on Solaris systems.

SpamAssassin Local State Dir = /var/lib/spamassassin

Jules, can you fix the default MailScanner.conf to match reality,
please?

I've posted on the list about this on November 22nd and 23rd last year -
I spent a productive hour one evening testing various "SpamAssassin
Local State Dir" settings on a production server

Cheers,

Phil
--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Raymond Dijkxhoorn
> Sent: 19 January 2007 15:55
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Spam slipping through
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Thank you, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.  When I 
> run the same 
> > mail through spamassassin on the command line, it hits more 
> rules than 
> > when it's running through MailScanner.  Both are using the 
> same config.
> 
> And thats not due to the fact its added LATER on URIBL for 
> examle? So you 
> hit more rules when you recheck in time?
> 
> Bye,
> Raymond.
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