Mailscanner not tagging spam

[Martin.Hepworth]

Paul

Check spamassassin isn't timing out, this is the usual cause...

Also check what the action is for high scoring spam.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Paul Welsh
> Sent: 19 March 2008 14:46
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Mailscanner not tagging spam
>
> Hi
> I'm using version 4.64.3 of MailScanner with Spamassassin 3.2.3 with Exim.
> At around 4am yesterday MailScanner stopped detecting spam.  Looking
> through
> the maillog, the "Found x spam messages" stopped at around 4am.  I
> restarted
> MailScanner and Exim and this seemed to fix it.
>
> However, today although MailScanner says it is detecting spam, it's still
> coming through.  If I test some of the messages that are getting through
> using SpamAssassin in debug mode, the messages are clearly high scoring
> spam.  I've received no messages with a modified subject line, ie, with
> the
> {Spam?} prefix and the Internet headers show the messages have not been
> classified as spam by MailScanner.  I've set "Always Include SpamAssassin
> Report" to yes from no so I can get a bit more detail and I'm waiting for
> MailScanner to do one of its periodic restarts.
>
> Any ideas what could be going wrong or what I can do to debug the problem?
> The server in question has been up for 417 days, do you think a reboot may
> solve the issue?
>
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