SpamAssassin 3.2.5 problem?

[Steve Freegard]

Remco Barendse wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> I am trying to verify my installation of SpamAssassin because i still
> get lots of spam.
> 
> As i understood the way to test old versions of SA is this:
> spamassassin -D --lint -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> which runs fine and doesn't generate any errors.
> 
> However when i try :
> spamassassin -D -t -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> [8595] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all
> [8595] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
> [8595] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5
> [8595] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.
> [8595] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes
> [8595] dbg: util: taint mode: deleting unsafe environment variables,
> resetting PATH
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/kerberos/sbin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/kerberos/bin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/sbin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/local/bin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/sbin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/bin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/sbin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/bin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/usr/X11R6/bin', keeping
> [8595] dbg: util: PATH included '/root/bin', which doesn't exist, dropping
> [8595] dbg: util: final PATH set to:
> /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> [8595] dbg: dns: no ipv6
> [8595] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes
> [8595] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.65
> 
> and here it seems to hang endlessly, whereas --lint continues there with :

That's user error - it hangs because it's waiting for the message on STDIN:

spamassassin -D -t -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf <
/path/to/test/message or /dev/null

Regards,
Steve.