SpamAssassin not being Called
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Sep 16 22:21:47 IST 2008
Jason Dick wrote:
> I have installed
> MailScanner 4.72.2 and SpamAssassin 3.2.5 on a Fedora Core 2 box and I am having problems
> with SpamAssassin. MailScanner seems to work just fine but it never seems to
> call SpamAssassin.
>
> I have the following
> set in MailScanner.conf:
> Spam Checks =
> yes
> Spam List =
> Spam
> Domain List =
> Use SpamAssassin = yes
> Log Spam =
> yes
> Debug SpamAssassin = yes
>
Switch this off. You only want to turn this on from the command-line.
>
> Here's what maillog
> shows:
> Sep 16 16:30:40
> icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 177272 bytes
> Sep
> 16 16:30:40 icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: Saved archive copies of
> m8GKUd1S004232
> Sep 16 16:30:40 icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: Spam Checks:
> Starting
> Sep 16 16:30:41 icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: Filename Checks: Blocked
> Filename Detected (m8GKUd1S004232 msg-4229-2.gif)
> Sep 16 16:30:41 icegate2
> MailScanner[4229]: Other Checks: Found 1 problems
> Sep 16 16:30:41 icegate2
> MailScanner[4229]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Sep 16 16:30:41
> icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: Saved infected "msg-4229-2.gif" to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20080916/m8GKUd1S004232
> Sep 16 16:30:41
> icegate2 MailScanner[4229]: Cleaned: Delivered 1 cleaned
> messages
>
> I get no errors on lint either.
> spamassassin -C spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint
>
>
> It's been a few years since I've used MailScanner but I don't remember
> having to do anything special to get it work. Anyone have any ideas why SpamAssassin is not being called or how i can debug it?
>
>
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>
Jules
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