Mailscanner not tagging spam

[Julian Field]

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Sounds like you've got mail that isn't getting processed by MailScanner, 
as it's bypassing it. In the rogue messages, start by looking for any 
MailScanner headers, and work from there.

Paul Welsh wrote:
> 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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Jules

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