Spam slipping through

[Randal, Phil]

> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Michael Masse
> Sent: 19 January 2007 16:43
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Spam slipping through
> 
> >>> On 1/19/2007 at 10:22 AM, in message
> <86144ED6CE5B004DA23E1EAC0B569B581237B856 at isabella.herefordshi
> re.gov.uk>,
> "Randal, Phil" <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk> wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Using Jules latest easy install package, my SpamAssassin local state
> dir is still in /var/lib/
> 
> Mike

Mike,

What do you mean by that?  I'm confused.  Are you agreeing or
disagreeing with what I wrote?

Is that what it says in your MailScanner.conf?  Or you have some other
way of divining what the local state dir is?

My comments are based on standard installs of MailScanner and Jules'
Install-Clam-SA-3.1.7.

Cheers,

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