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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