SA 3.2.0 Woes

Matt Kettler mkettler at evi-inc.com
Mon May 7 23:58:57 IST 2007


Scott Silva wrote:
> Matt Kettler spake the following on 5/7/2007 2:59 PM:
>> --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Not sure whether this is a issue or not, but since upgrading SA and
>>> MailScanner I never seem to get any hits via RBLs. I am using MailWatch
>>> and that just says "SpamAssassin Listed in RBL". Bayes never seems to
>>> trigger aswell now.
>>>
>>> Have others experienced anything like this ?
>> I've not tried 3.2.0 with MailScanner. However, this sounds like it might be a
>> purely spamassassin issue.
>>
>> You might want to try running the following basic debugging steps:
>>
>> First, run "spamassassin --lint", and make sure it's got nothing to complain
>> about in your config files. It should just exit quietly. I strongly recommend
>> doing this first, as the version with debug below often spits out so much text
>> it  becomes easy to miss the important warning messages.
>>
>> Second, run "spamassassin --lint -D" and take a look if SA thinks network tests
>> are enabled. It might be that your version of Net::DNS isn't new enough for
>> 3.2's needs, and thus this feature is disabled. Ditto bayes and your version of
>> DB_File and/or DBI.
> 
> Does 3.2.0 do network tests in a lint? Because 3.1.8 didn't unless you piped a
> message through it.
> 

Gah! you're right, forgot about that.

You'd have to do a "spamassassin -D < sample-spam.txt >/dev/null"





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