[({Spam?})] FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 3.38

[Alex Broens]

On 1/12/2010 4:07 PM, dcurtis at sbschools.net wrote:
> Ok, I think I am stuck in the past and have not kept up with changes. At
> some point spamassassin used /etc/mail/spamassassin and I used
> rules_du_jour to update, and at some point spamassassin came out with
> sa-update. 

spamassassin STILL uses  /etc/mail/spamassassin for local rules / .pre 
files / plugins, etc.


  /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/ *shouldn't* contain  any rules, 
except a .pyzor file to point to the right server




> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kai
> Schaetzl
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:30 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: [({Spam?})] FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 3.38
> 
> <dcurtis at sbschools.net> wrote on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:48:10 -0500:
> 
>> I still have no idea why (with the same file ownership) that creating
> a
>> link to the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file as user_prefs in
>> /var/spool/postfix/.spamassassin/ folder works when the same link in
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin folder does not.
> 
> Ok, a last hint. I didn't look at your pastebin log before. Now I did.
> Two 
> seconds. This shows that (as I already told you!) your SA is *seriously*
> 
> misconfigured. 
> 
> 80.[14922] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules
> dir
> 81.[14922] dbg: config: read file 
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/10_default_prefs.cf
> 82.[14922] dbg: config: read file
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/20_advance_fee.cf
> ...
> 168.[14922] dbg: config: read file 
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/weeds_2_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net.cf
> 
> None (almost none) of these files belong there. And one of the files is 
> overscoring your custom score. I could tell you which, but I'm sure
> you'll 
> find it by yourself. Or you just remove all of them (except for local.cf
> 
> and mailscanner.cf and any files you wrote yourself) as they don't
> belong 
> there!
> 
> You need to read up on how to use SA and how it works. Please.
> 
> Kai
>